Review Report on Estimating the Back-End Cost of Business Software using ER diagram Artifact
Swayamprava Parida, Samaresh Mishra · 2014
Accurate and timely cost estimation is an important software project management activity for a successful software development project. At the present time of business software development, the back- end development plays a very vital role along with in front-end development. The back-end cost of business software is generally depends on the database size and the structural size of individual data items. As software cost estimation is done in the early phase of software development, so the artifacts available at the conceptual data modelling using ER diagram along with the concepts of generalization, specialization and aggregation has considered for size estimation of database system of software. In this paper, we have studied some existing models and metrics commonly used for estimating back-end size, its complexity and development effort.