An Automated Software Cost and Schedule Measurement Tool for OO System using Predictive Object Point Sizing Metrics.
Vijay Kumar Yadav, Vibhash Yadav, Raghuraj Singh · Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research · 2018
Software cost measurement is still a challenging task for software developers. It is the prediction of the resources required for a software development process. The accurate and timely estimation of cost at the early phase of its development or when the architecture of project is fully understood is required. While estimating software cost, system size is widely taken as main parameter of the system development effort. In this paper, using Predictive Object Point software sizing metrics set, first the prediction of effort is done and then the estimation of cost as well as schedule of an OO system for post architectural has been done. For the estimation of effort, schedule and cost a tool named APA has been made using COCOMO II model and POP calculator. It takes POP count and converts it into LOCPOP using the linear regression equation and thus calculates effort, schedule and cost of the project. The results are presented here to show that POP Count can be used to estimate the effort, schedule and cost of an object oriented system.