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Technical Reports
USC-CSE-84-501
Barry Boehm, Maria H. Penedo, E. Don Stuckle, Robert D. Williams, Arthur B. Pyster, "A Software Development Environment for Improving Productivity," Computer, Volume 17, Number 6, June 1984, pp. 30-44 (pdf)
A major effort at improving productivity at TRW led to the creation of the software productivity project, or SPP, in 1981. The major thrust of this project is the establishment of a software development environment to support project activities; this environment is called the software productivity system, or SPS. It involves a set of strategies, induding the work environment; the evaluation and procurement of hardware equipment; the provision for immediate access to computing resources through loca1 area networks; the building of an integrated set of tools to support the software development life cycle and all project personnel: and a user support function to transfer new technology. All of these strategies are being accomplished incrementally. The current architecture is Vax-based and uses the Unix operating system, a wideband local network,
and a set of software tools.
This article describes the steps that led to the creation of the SPP, summarizes the requirements analyses on which the SPS is based, describes the components which
make up the SPS, and presents our conclusions.
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USC-CSE-84-500
Barry Boehm, "Software Engineering Economics," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Volume SE-10, Number 1, January 1984, pp. 4-21 (pdf)
This paper summarizes the current state of the art and recent trends in software engineering economics. It provides an overview of economic analysis techniques and their applicability to software engineering and management. It surveys the field of software cost estimation, including the major estimation techniques available, the state of the art in algorithmic cost models, and the outstanding research issues in software cost estimation.
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