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Once a calibrated version of COCOMO® II was finally released to
the public, the need to provide a single, concise, authoritative
resource documenting the model and explaining the use of the USC
COCOMO® II software became apparent. To that end, members of the
COCOMO®
research group have authored a book called Software Cost
Estimation With COCOMO® II (Prentice Hall, July 2000) shown above
on the left. The book explains the theory behind the model, while
keeping a focus on the practical informational needs of the professional
software cost estimator.
Rather than as a replacement of Software Engineering Economics
(Prentice Hall, 1981) shown above on the right, which was Barry
Boehm's earlier text detailing the theory and application of COCOMO®
81, this new book should be viewed as an updated supplement (in
practical terms it supercedes about one third of the material in
the original book). For the software professional, it serves quite
well as a stand-alone resource, providing all the information needed
to effectively apply the USC COCOMO® II tool. For the student studying
software economics, it complements Boehm's original text, omitting
the broaderdiscussions of software project management still valid
in the earlier book, while providing insight into the changes in
software development practice that have occurred over the past twenty
years and which have made the development of COCOMO® II necessary.
Both books can be ordered at Amazon.com:
As errata for the new book and it's accompanying compact
disc are identified, they will be documented here:
To help us improve the next edition of the COCOMO® II
book and included software, we would also be most grateful if you
would care to report to userrors both conceptual and typographic
that you discover in the course of using both the text and its included
CD:
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