ISBN : 978-81-963532-2-3 (E-Book) entire project cost is incurred on account of the manpower cost alone. In addition tomanpower cost, a project would incur costs due to hardware and software required for the projectandthe companyoverheads foradministration, officespace, etc. It is important to note that the effort and the duration estimations obtained using the COCOMOmodel are called as nominal effort estimate and nominal duration estimate. The term nominalimplies that if anyone tries to complete the project in a time shorter than the estimated duration,thenthecostwillincreasedrastically.But,ifanyonecompletestheprojectoveralongerperiodof time than theestimated, then thereis almost nodecreasein the estimated cost value. Example: Assume that the size of an org organic type software product has been estimated to be 32,000lines of source code. Assume that the average salary of software engineers be Rs. 15,000/permonth.Determinetheeffortrequiredtodevelopthesoftwareproductandthenominaldevelopmentti me. FromthebasicCOCOMOestimationformulafor organicsoftware: 1.05 Effort=2.4х(32) =91PM 0.38 167 Software Engineering Keerthana P, Manasa KN, Ganga D Bengal
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