Title :
Software Estimation: Transforming Dust into Pots of Gold?
Author_Institution :
Ecole de Technol. Super., Montréal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
In the Dark Ages the ´Lords of the country´ were expecting that their ´alchemists´ - the ´gurus´ of their era - would come up with mysterious formula that would transform ´dust´ into ´pots of gold! A lot of current software estimation models and practices, including in Agile and COCOMO-like models, share characteristics of craft practices observed in the Dark Ages, when compared to current professional practices from engineering and sciences.
Keywords :
software cost estimation; Agile models; COCOMO-like models; Dark Ages; craft practices; software estimation; Biological system modeling; Estimation; Gold; Organizations; Productivity; Software; Standards organizations; metrics; productivity models; software estimation;
Conference_Titel :
Software Measurement and the International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (IWSM-MENSURA), 2014 Joint Conference of the International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Rotterdam
DOI :
10.1109/IWSM.Mensura.2014.48
