Siddhant- A Journal of Decision Making

  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 1

A Study on Size and Complexity Metrics for Software Development Environment

  • Author:
  • Samaresh Mishra, Kabita Hazra, Prasant Kumar Pattnaik
  • Total Page Count: 12
  • Published Online: Sep 1, 2012
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 141 to 152

*School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, INDIA

**School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, INDIA

***Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Konark Institute of Science & Technology, Bhubaneswar, INDIA

Abstract

Software cost estimation has been an important but difficult task for software project management. The success of software development depends on the accurate and timely estimation of cost at the early phase of its development. Many factors contribute to the overall estimation process, but factors like size and level of complexity of software affects more for a better estimation of effort and time of development. In this paper, the extensive study has been made on different metrics used for estimating size and complexity of software for both function oriented and object oriented development approaches. Again, the comparison has been conducted on the popular metrics sited by different researchers based on some factors related to their strengths and weaknesses and popularity has taken into our consideration.