Developing Project Duration Models in Software Engineering  

作　　者：Pierre Bourque Serge Oligny Alain Abran Bertrand Fournier 

机构地区：[1]cole de Technologie Supérieure Montréal,Québec,Canada [2]Bell Canada Montréal,Québec,Canada [3]Université du Québec à Montréal Montréal,Québec,Canada

出　　处：《Journal of Computer Science & Technology》2007年第3期348-357,共10页计算机科学技术学报（英文版）

基　　金：Funding for this research was partially provided by Bell Canada and by the Vatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The opinions expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors

摘　　要：Based on the empirical analysis of data contained in the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group （ISBSG） repository, this paper presents software engineering project duration models based on project effort. Duration models are built for the entire dataset and for subsets of projects developed for personal computer, mid-range and mainframe platforms. Duration models are also constructed for projects requiring fewer than 400 person-hours of effort and for projects requiring more than 400 person-hours of effort. The usefulness of adding the maximum number of assigned resources as a second independent variable to explain duration is also analyzed. The opportunity to build duration models directly from project functional size in function points is investigated as well.Based on the empirical analysis of data contained in the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group （ISBSG） repository, this paper presents software engineering project duration models based on project effort. Duration models are built for the entire dataset and for subsets of projects developed for personal computer, mid-range and mainframe platforms. Duration models are also constructed for projects requiring fewer than 400 person-hours of effort and for projects requiring more than 400 person-hours of effort. The usefulness of adding the maximum number of assigned resources as a second independent variable to explain duration is also analyzed. The opportunity to build duration models directly from project functional size in function points is investigated as well.

关 键 词：international software benchmarking standards group （ISBSG） project duration models project scheduling models schedule and organizational issues software engineering time estimation 

分 类 号：TP311.5[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论]