esrcTool: A Tool to Estimate the Software Risk and Cost

Function Point is a well known established method to estimate the size of software projects. There are several areas of the software engineering in which we can use the function point analysis (FPA) like project planning, project construction, software implementation etc. In this paper we have used the function point approach in order to develop the architecture of the esrcTool. This tool is used for two different purposes, firstly, to estimate the risk in the software and secondly to estimate the cost of the software. In the literature of software engineering there are so many models to estimate the risk in the software like Soft Risk Model, SRAM, SRAEM and so on. But in the esrcTool we have used SRAEM i.e. Software Risk Assessment and Estimation Model, because in this model FP is used as an input variable, and on the other hand side, in order to determine the cost of the software we have used the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group Release Report (ISBSG).