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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 ==

Methods for estimation in software engineering include thisthese principles:

*[[Analysis Efforteffort method]]

*[[Analysis Effort method]]

*[[COCOMO]]

*[http://csse.usc.edu/csse/research/COCOMOII/cocomo_main.html COCOMO™ II]

*[[COSYSMO]]

*[[Evidence-based Scheduling]] Refinement of typical agile estimating techniques using minimal measurement and total time accounting.

*[[Function point analysis|Function Point Analysis]]

*[[Estimation theory|Parametric Estimating]]

*[[Extreme_Programming_Practices#Planning_game|The Planning Game]] (from [[Extreme Programming]])

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

*[[ITK method]], also known as Method CETIN

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

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

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

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

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

*[[Putnam_model|SLIM]]

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

*[[Extreme_Programming_Practices#Planning_game|The Planning Game]] (from [[Extreme Programming]])

*[[ Use Case Points|The Use Case Points method (UCP)]]

*[[Weighted Micro Function Points]] (WMFP)

*[[Wideband Delphi]]

*[[ Use Case Points|The Use Case Points method (UCP)]]

Most cost software development 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]].

*[[ITK method|CETIN]]

==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''

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

* [http://www.stellman-greene.com/ch03 Software Estimation chapter] from [http://www.stellman-greene.com Applied Software Project Management] (O'Reilly)

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

* [http://softwaresurvival.blogspot.com/2006/11/dynamics-of-effort-estimation-in-most.html The Dynamics of Software Projects Estimation]

* [http://www.construx.com/Page.aspx?nid=297 Resources on Software Estimation] from [[Steve McConnell]]

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* Article [http://www.gem-up.com/PDF/SK903V1_WP_Estimating.pdf Estimating techniques throughout the SDLC]

* [http://www.nomitech.eu Top Down, BIM and Parametric Estimating Software]

* [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 by Roy Clemmons]

* [COCOMO™ II http://cost.jsc.nasa.gov/COCOMO.html]

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

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

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