Question Generation and the Systems Analysis Process
Thomas W. Lauer, Eileen Peacock, Arthur C. Graesser · Psychology Press eBooks · 2013
Soaring software costs make the economic consequences of even minor productivity improvements in the process of software development substantial. Estimates in 1985 place U.S. software costs at $70 billion, worldwide software costs at $140 billion, and the growth rate at 12% (Boehm, 1987). It is also well-known that a large percentage of custom-developed systems are unsuccessful because they are late, over budget, or fail to meet specifications. Maintenance costs that run from two to four times the original development cost of a system are partially a byproduct of this failure (Shemer, 1987). Nevertheless, most informed information systems (IS) researchers and practitioners have recognized that there is no panacea for the problem of software productivity. This is a multifaceted problem that must be attacked on various fronts.