Constructive Cost Model—COCOMO

The COCOMO method represents a data-driven, model-based, parametric estimation method that implements a fixed-model approach. In other words, COCOMO provides a fixed estimation model that has been built on multi organizational project data using statistical regression, which represents a data-driven, parametric method.

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1. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany Adam Trendowicz
2. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Ross Jeffery

1. Adam Trendowicz