Self-Study Questions

1.Suppose that the library automation software company described in this chapter receives a new RFP asking about automating a 6-branch, 95,000 book library system. Using the formulas in the section on statistical methods estimation:

  1. What is the approximate hardware cost to automate this library system?

  2. What is the approximate software cost?

  3. What is the approximate total cost?

2.Terry is a software developer on the Mondo project at MegaSoft. Terry has been asked by Pat, the project manager, to estimate how many lines of code will be needed for the user interface. Terry remembers that the user interface for the Giganta project was about 37,500 lines of code. Based on that, Terry thinks that the user interface for the Mondo project ...

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