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Cost estimation in software engineering is typically concerned with the financial spend on the effort to develop and test the software, this can also include requirements review, maintenance, training, managing and buying extra equipment, servers and software. Many methods have been developed for estimating software costs for a given project.

== Methods ==

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*[[Proxy-based estimating]] (PROBE) (from the [[Personal Software Process]])

*[[Program Evaluation and Review Technique]] (PERT)

*[[Putnam_modelPutnam model]], also known as SLIM

*[[PRICE Systems]] Founders of Commercial Parametric models that estimates the scope, cost, effort and schedule for software projects.

*[[SEER-SEM]] Parametric Estimation of Effort, Schedule, Cost, Risk. Minimum time and staffing concepts based on [[Brooks's law]]

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*[[Wideband Delphi]]

Most cost software development <ref>{{cite web |last1=Katherine O. |title=Software Development Costs and Factors Affecting Its Price |url=https://www.cleveroad.com/blog/software-development-costs#software-cost-factors |website=Cleveroad |accessdate=20 March 2019}}</ref> estimation techniques involve estimating or measuring software size first and then applying some knowledge of historical of cost per unit of size. Software size is typically sized in [[Source lines of code|SLOC]], [[Function Point]] or [[Burn down chart|Agile story points]].

==See also==

* [[Software development effort estimation]]

* [[Software metric]]

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==External links==

* [https://doc.lagout.org/science/0_Computer%20Science/9_Others/9_Misc/Applied%20Software%20Project%20Management.pdf Software Estimation chapter] from O'Reilly, ''Applied Software Project Management''

* [http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=25 Estimating With Use Case Points] from ''Methods & Tools''

* [http://www.bfpug.com.br/Artigos/UCP/Banerjee-UCP_An_Estimation_Approach.pdf Definition of Use Case Points method (UCP)]

* Roy K. Clemmons, [http://www.bfpug.com.br/Artigos/UCP/Clemmons-Project_Estimation_with_UCP.pdf Project Estimation With Use Case Points]

* [httphttps://wwwmassmediagroup.gem-up.compro/PDF/SK903V1_WP_Estimating.pdf Estimating techniques throughout the SDLC]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111126011102/http://cost.jsc.nasa.gov/COCOMO.html COCOMO™ II]

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