Preface
In the ten years between the first and the second editions of this book, many changes have taken place in the computer industry and also in the technology of software cost estimating.
More than 20 new development methodologies have appeared, including about a dozen kinds of “Agile” development. Object-oriented (OO) methods are expanding in popularity. Use cases and the unified modeling language (UML) have joined the mainstream of software design methods. The Software Engineering Institute has issued the new capability maturity model integration (CMMI). All of these new approaches are being used on software projects where accurate cost and schedule estimates are important.
Some of these new methods have created new metrics for estimation ...
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