Modern Empirical Cost and Schedule Estimation Tools - New software development philosophies and technologies have emerged in the 1980s and 1990s to reduce development costs and improve quality of software products. These new approaches frequently involve the use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software, software reuse, application generators, and fourth generation languages. The purpose of this paper is to identify, discuss, compare and contrast software cost estimating models and tools that address these modern philosophies.
NASA Cost Estimating Handbook - The NASA CEH brings the fundamental concepts of cost estimating to NASA personnel in a way that recognizes the nature of NASA systems and the NASA environment. New topics have been added and the document layout updated. The 2004 NASA CEH is designed to be an electronic resource. Not intended to be read cover-to-cover, this handbook’s design facilitates fast topic searches, extractions of specific pages, graphics, or sections, and provides in-depth write-ups without disturbing the flow of the document.
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