This document discusses software cost estimation. It begins by distinguishing between effort, which is the number of hours of work required, and time, which is the duration from start to finish. It then describes factors that influence cost estimation, such as project type and size, and development team size. Finally, it outlines several techniques used for cost estimation, including algorithmic models, expert judgment, top-down estimation, and bottom-up estimation.
The document provides an overview of the Unified Software Process (UP). It discusses the history and development of UP over decades. Key aspects of UP include being use-case driven, architecture-centric, and iterative and incremental. UP recognizes four important aspects of software development: people, project, product, and process. Use cases drive the entire development process. UP emphasizes iterative development and producing incremental working software. The Rational Unified Process (RUP) provides additional tools and content to support applying UP.
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This document is a project report for developing an e-commerce website with a shopping cart application. It discusses the objectives, organization profile, technologies used like .NET framework, ASP.NET, C#, and SQL Server. It covers system analysis, design, testing, and security. The report aims to develop a basic e-commerce site for online shopping.
This document presents an online shopping cart application created by Swati Gupta for her Master's thesis. The application was designed to teach computer science students about ecommerce application development. It allows users to browse products by category, add items to a shopping cart, and checkout/purchase orders. The implementation uses JavaScript, HTML, and Java on both the client-side and server-side. Testing was performed to evaluate the interface functionality and place test orders. Future work could expand the application's features to increase complexity for educational purposes.
This document discusses rapid software development methods. It covers agile development methods like extreme programming (XP), which uses practices like test-driven development, pair programming, and frequent releases. XP emphasizes customer involvement, handling changing requirements, and maintaining simple code. Rapid application development and prototyping are also discussed. Prototypes help explore requirements and design but are discarded, while RAD relies on tools to quickly build database-driven business applications. The document compares incremental development, which starts with best-understood requirements, to throw-away prototyping, which starts with least-understood requirements.
Introduction of software project managementREHMAT ULLAH
This document discusses software project management. It defines software project management as a process of managing, allocating, and timing resources to develop computer software that meets requirements. The document outlines the key tasks in software project management, including problem identification, definition, planning, organization, resource allocation, scheduling, tracking, reporting, controlling, and project termination. It emphasizes that software project management plans, implements, monitors, and controls software projects from start to finish.
This document proposes a solution to common problems customers face with online shopping. It discusses developing a website that consolidates products from different sites in one place to make shopping more convenient. The project was completed successfully and met all requirements. Testing showed the software works efficiently, with a user-friendly interface, reduced errors, and provisions to upgrade. Deliverables include both tangible costs and benefits like hardware, salaries, improved performance as well as intangible costs and benefits like customer satisfaction and company reputation.
The document provides an overview of the Unified Software Process (UP). It discusses the history and development of UP over decades. Key aspects of UP include being use-case driven, architecture-centric, and iterative and incremental. UP recognizes four important aspects of software development: people, project, product, and process. Use cases drive the entire development process. UP emphasizes iterative development and producing incremental working software. The Rational Unified Process (RUP) provides additional tools and content to support applying UP.
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This document is a project report for developing an e-commerce website with a shopping cart application. It discusses the objectives, organization profile, technologies used like .NET framework, ASP.NET, C#, and SQL Server. It covers system analysis, design, testing, and security. The report aims to develop a basic e-commerce site for online shopping.
This document presents an online shopping cart application created by Swati Gupta for her Master's thesis. The application was designed to teach computer science students about ecommerce application development. It allows users to browse products by category, add items to a shopping cart, and checkout/purchase orders. The implementation uses JavaScript, HTML, and Java on both the client-side and server-side. Testing was performed to evaluate the interface functionality and place test orders. Future work could expand the application's features to increase complexity for educational purposes.
This document discusses rapid software development methods. It covers agile development methods like extreme programming (XP), which uses practices like test-driven development, pair programming, and frequent releases. XP emphasizes customer involvement, handling changing requirements, and maintaining simple code. Rapid application development and prototyping are also discussed. Prototypes help explore requirements and design but are discarded, while RAD relies on tools to quickly build database-driven business applications. The document compares incremental development, which starts with best-understood requirements, to throw-away prototyping, which starts with least-understood requirements.
Introduction of software project managementREHMAT ULLAH
This document discusses software project management. It defines software project management as a process of managing, allocating, and timing resources to develop computer software that meets requirements. The document outlines the key tasks in software project management, including problem identification, definition, planning, organization, resource allocation, scheduling, tracking, reporting, controlling, and project termination. It emphasizes that software project management plans, implements, monitors, and controls software projects from start to finish.
This document proposes a solution to common problems customers face with online shopping. It discusses developing a website that consolidates products from different sites in one place to make shopping more convenient. The project was completed successfully and met all requirements. Testing showed the software works efficiently, with a user-friendly interface, reduced errors, and provisions to upgrade. Deliverables include both tangible costs and benefits like hardware, salaries, improved performance as well as intangible costs and benefits like customer satisfaction and company reputation.
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This project involves developing an inventory management system with a backend database. The database contains 10 tables to store information on brands, products, stores, users, customers, transactions and invoices. The system allows three levels of users - counter staff, managers and owners - to track inventory levels, place orders, generate invoices and analyze sales reports. It aims to help businesses better manage stock levels and reduce risks of stock-outs or excess inventory.
The document discusses project planning in software engineering. It defines project planning and its importance. It describes the project manager's responsibilities which include project planning, reporting, risk management, and people management. It discusses challenges in software project planning. The RUP process for project planning is then outlined which involves creating artifacts like the business case and software development plan. Risk management is also a key part of project planning.
The document discusses the Model View Controller (MVC) web application architecture. MVC separates an application into three main components: the model, the view, and the controller. The model manages the core data and logic of the application. The view displays the model's data to the user. The controller interprets user input, often updating the model in response. Together these components allow for separation of concerns in building dynamic web applications.
What is professional software development and definition of software engineering. Who is a software engineer. Difference between Computer Science and Systems Engineering
A presentation detailing a Library Management System (LMS) Project for a Medical Research Council. The function of the Library is to organize and account for all the materials (Books, Journals, Magazines, Publications and Thesis) in the Library.
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Requirement analysis and specification, software engineeringRupesh Vaishnav
The document discusses the key tasks in requirements engineering including inception, elicitation, elaboration, negotiation, specification, validation and management. It describes each task such as inception involves establishing a basic understanding of the problem and potential solutions through questioning stakeholders. Elicitation involves drawing requirements from stakeholders through techniques like meetings. Specification can take the form of documents, models, scenarios or prototypes. The requirements specification is an important output and should have certain characteristics like being unambiguous and traceable.
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1. The document discusses software quality and reliability in engineering. It defines quality as software being bug-free, on time, meeting requirements, and maintainable. Reliability is the probability of failure-free operation over time in a given environment.
2. Ensuring quality involves preventing and detecting faults during all phases of the software development life cycle from requirements to testing. The V-model helps achieve quality by involving testers early on.
3. Reliability focuses on avoiding faults during design and detecting problems during all phases through techniques like fault tolerance, forecasting, and measuring metrics like MTBF.
The document discusses conventional software management and its challenges. It provides three key points:
1. Only 10% of software projects were delivered successfully on time and budget in the 1990s due to software development being unpredictable and management discipline being a bigger factor in success than technology.
2. The waterfall model was the conventional approach but had issues like late risk resolution, requirements-driven decomposition, and adversarial stakeholder relationships.
3. Modern practices from the 2000s onward used more repeatable processes, off-the-shelf tools, and commercial products for improved economics compared to custom approaches of the 1960-1990 period.
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This transaction proposal outlines a SQL transaction to update clients' account balances after a property purchase or sale. It would insert a record into the Buy_Sell table and then update the balances of the buyer and seller by subtracting and adding the transaction value, respectively. The transaction is optimized by checking for Chicago properties with 4+ bedrooms first before checking the city. Encryption is suggested to protect client information in the event of a security breach.
The document discusses non-functional requirements (NFRs), including what they are, when they can be used, how acceptance criteria support NFRs, and NFR elicitation. It provides examples of functional vs. non-functional requirements for a fictional "Batmobile" project. It also discusses how Twitter failed to adequately plan for scalability, a common non-functional requirement. Finally, it shares examples of common NFRs like usability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
Software architecture reconstruction is the process of analyzing an existing software system to produce an architectural representation of it. It involves extracting information from various sources like code, documentation, and profiles. This information is converted into a standard database format and combined from different sources through view fusion. The main activities of reconstruction are visualization and interaction with the views, and recognizing patterns in the code. It is an iterative process requiring both technical expertise and architectural skills to understand dependencies and evaluate how an implemented system conforms to its intended architecture.
System engineering involves determining operational requirements and modeling relationships between elements like hardware, software, and people to accomplish goals. It can focus on business processes or product development. The engineering process follows a hierarchy from overall objectives to domain specifications to element implementations. It is iterative to adapt to changing needs. Business process engineering derives data, application, and technology architectures, while product engineering defines architectures and infrastructure for software, hardware, data, and people components.
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A Vehicle Management System helps to register and keep information about all vehicles. A summary can also be generated from this system. Reports can be generated from the database records so that the vehicles can be tracked and budget can be seen.
Accidental records can be summarized and response also can be given in this system. In addition, this system also provides additional information for each vehicle. This application is developed in CoreJava and MySQL.
This document discusses functional and non-functional requirements. Functional requirements describe the behavior of a system and support user goals, while non-functional requirements describe how the system works and make it more usable. Functional requirements should include data descriptions, screen operations, workflows, and access controls. Non-functional requirements should cover usability, reliability, performance, and supportability. Non-functional requirements are further classified into categories like process, delivery, implementation, and external constraints.
A content management system (CMS) allows large numbers of people to share stored data, control access to data based on user roles, aid in easy storage and retrieval of data, and reduce repetitive duplicate input. A CMS consists of a content management application and a content delivery application. It aims to devolve content creation, provide security and approval processes, and improve quality. Key features include integrated help, extensibility, user management, permissions, templates, and localization. Content is created using templates and workflows to simplify the upload, approval, and publishing process. Examples of popular CMS platforms include Drupal and Joomla, which are both open source and widely used.
The document outlines specifications for a bank management system that allows customers to create and manage bank accounts. It includes sections on team members, aims, problem description, requirements, module descriptions, entity relationship diagrams, outputs, conclusions, and screenshots. The system provides customers access to create accounts, deposit/withdraw funds, and view reports. It was developed to meet banking needs and allow additional functionality beyond conventional systems.
The document provides a software requirement specification for an online shopping system. It describes the purpose as creating a web-based application for online shopping. It outlines the intended users, product perspective and functionality. The product allows customers to view item details, make purchases and returns. Administrators can add, update and manage inventory. Non-functional requirements include cost estimation, pricing, network bandwidth needs and flexibility for regulatory changes. UML diagrams including use case, class, sequence and collaboration diagrams are proposed to model the system design. Testing strategies like unit, integration and system testing are described.
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The document discusses software project management. It defines a software project as the complete process of software development from requirements gathering through testing and maintenance. A software project manager closely monitors the development process, prepares plans, arranges resources, and manages communication between team members. Software project management involves planning, scope management, estimation of size, effort, time and cost, and other activities. Estimation techniques include decomposition by functions or activities and empirical models. Lines of code is a common size metric but does not consider complexity. Effort estimation forecasts time required and project estimation uses a stepwise decomposition approach.
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This project involves developing an inventory management system with a backend database. The database contains 10 tables to store information on brands, products, stores, users, customers, transactions and invoices. The system allows three levels of users - counter staff, managers and owners - to track inventory levels, place orders, generate invoices and analyze sales reports. It aims to help businesses better manage stock levels and reduce risks of stock-outs or excess inventory.
The document discusses project planning in software engineering. It defines project planning and its importance. It describes the project manager's responsibilities which include project planning, reporting, risk management, and people management. It discusses challenges in software project planning. The RUP process for project planning is then outlined which involves creating artifacts like the business case and software development plan. Risk management is also a key part of project planning.
The document discusses the Model View Controller (MVC) web application architecture. MVC separates an application into three main components: the model, the view, and the controller. The model manages the core data and logic of the application. The view displays the model's data to the user. The controller interprets user input, often updating the model in response. Together these components allow for separation of concerns in building dynamic web applications.
What is professional software development and definition of software engineering. Who is a software engineer. Difference between Computer Science and Systems Engineering
A presentation detailing a Library Management System (LMS) Project for a Medical Research Council. The function of the Library is to organize and account for all the materials (Books, Journals, Magazines, Publications and Thesis) in the Library.
The system makes use of a Bar coding system to identify materials; used when checking in items.
Martins Jr.
Requirement analysis and specification, software engineeringRupesh Vaishnav
The document discusses the key tasks in requirements engineering including inception, elicitation, elaboration, negotiation, specification, validation and management. It describes each task such as inception involves establishing a basic understanding of the problem and potential solutions through questioning stakeholders. Elicitation involves drawing requirements from stakeholders through techniques like meetings. Specification can take the form of documents, models, scenarios or prototypes. The requirements specification is an important output and should have certain characteristics like being unambiguous and traceable.
Presentation given by Janette Toral at Drupal Camp Manila 2014 (April 27, 2014) where she talked about Scrum, Agile methodoloy and using it for e-commerce projects.
1. The document discusses software quality and reliability in engineering. It defines quality as software being bug-free, on time, meeting requirements, and maintainable. Reliability is the probability of failure-free operation over time in a given environment.
2. Ensuring quality involves preventing and detecting faults during all phases of the software development life cycle from requirements to testing. The V-model helps achieve quality by involving testers early on.
3. Reliability focuses on avoiding faults during design and detecting problems during all phases through techniques like fault tolerance, forecasting, and measuring metrics like MTBF.
The document discusses conventional software management and its challenges. It provides three key points:
1. Only 10% of software projects were delivered successfully on time and budget in the 1990s due to software development being unpredictable and management discipline being a bigger factor in success than technology.
2. The waterfall model was the conventional approach but had issues like late risk resolution, requirements-driven decomposition, and adversarial stakeholder relationships.
3. Modern practices from the 2000s onward used more repeatable processes, off-the-shelf tools, and commercial products for improved economics compared to custom approaches of the 1960-1990 period.
Assumptions, applicable measures, er diagramjandrewsxu
This transaction proposal outlines a SQL transaction to update clients' account balances after a property purchase or sale. It would insert a record into the Buy_Sell table and then update the balances of the buyer and seller by subtracting and adding the transaction value, respectively. The transaction is optimized by checking for Chicago properties with 4+ bedrooms first before checking the city. Encryption is suggested to protect client information in the event of a security breach.
The document discusses non-functional requirements (NFRs), including what they are, when they can be used, how acceptance criteria support NFRs, and NFR elicitation. It provides examples of functional vs. non-functional requirements for a fictional "Batmobile" project. It also discusses how Twitter failed to adequately plan for scalability, a common non-functional requirement. Finally, it shares examples of common NFRs like usability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
Software architecture reconstruction is the process of analyzing an existing software system to produce an architectural representation of it. It involves extracting information from various sources like code, documentation, and profiles. This information is converted into a standard database format and combined from different sources through view fusion. The main activities of reconstruction are visualization and interaction with the views, and recognizing patterns in the code. It is an iterative process requiring both technical expertise and architectural skills to understand dependencies and evaluate how an implemented system conforms to its intended architecture.
System engineering involves determining operational requirements and modeling relationships between elements like hardware, software, and people to accomplish goals. It can focus on business processes or product development. The engineering process follows a hierarchy from overall objectives to domain specifications to element implementations. It is iterative to adapt to changing needs. Business process engineering derives data, application, and technology architectures, while product engineering defines architectures and infrastructure for software, hardware, data, and people components.
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A Vehicle Management System helps to register and keep information about all vehicles. A summary can also be generated from this system. Reports can be generated from the database records so that the vehicles can be tracked and budget can be seen.
Accidental records can be summarized and response also can be given in this system. In addition, this system also provides additional information for each vehicle. This application is developed in CoreJava and MySQL.
This document discusses functional and non-functional requirements. Functional requirements describe the behavior of a system and support user goals, while non-functional requirements describe how the system works and make it more usable. Functional requirements should include data descriptions, screen operations, workflows, and access controls. Non-functional requirements should cover usability, reliability, performance, and supportability. Non-functional requirements are further classified into categories like process, delivery, implementation, and external constraints.
A content management system (CMS) allows large numbers of people to share stored data, control access to data based on user roles, aid in easy storage and retrieval of data, and reduce repetitive duplicate input. A CMS consists of a content management application and a content delivery application. It aims to devolve content creation, provide security and approval processes, and improve quality. Key features include integrated help, extensibility, user management, permissions, templates, and localization. Content is created using templates and workflows to simplify the upload, approval, and publishing process. Examples of popular CMS platforms include Drupal and Joomla, which are both open source and widely used.
The document outlines specifications for a bank management system that allows customers to create and manage bank accounts. It includes sections on team members, aims, problem description, requirements, module descriptions, entity relationship diagrams, outputs, conclusions, and screenshots. The system provides customers access to create accounts, deposit/withdraw funds, and view reports. It was developed to meet banking needs and allow additional functionality beyond conventional systems.
The document provides a software requirement specification for an online shopping system. It describes the purpose as creating a web-based application for online shopping. It outlines the intended users, product perspective and functionality. The product allows customers to view item details, make purchases and returns. Administrators can add, update and manage inventory. Non-functional requirements include cost estimation, pricing, network bandwidth needs and flexibility for regulatory changes. UML diagrams including use case, class, sequence and collaboration diagrams are proposed to model the system design. Testing strategies like unit, integration and system testing are described.
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The document discusses software project management. It defines a software project as the complete process of software development from requirements gathering through testing and maintenance. A software project manager closely monitors the development process, prepares plans, arranges resources, and manages communication between team members. Software project management involves planning, scope management, estimation of size, effort, time and cost, and other activities. Estimation techniques include decomposition by functions or activities and empirical models. Lines of code is a common size metric but does not consider complexity. Effort estimation forecasts time required and project estimation uses a stepwise decomposition approach.
This document summarizes the key phases in planning a software project:
1) Planning is the most important phase and involves estimating effort, schedules, resources, and risks. It defines goals for costs, timelines and quality.
2) Process planning defines the development stages and activities. It may modify established models to suit a project's needs.
3) Effort estimation predicts the time and costs required, and is needed for budgets, monitoring, and contracting. Estimates are most accurate after requirements are defined.
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The document discusses various aspects of software project management including defining a software project, the need for software project management, roles and responsibilities of a project manager, key project management activities like planning, estimation, scheduling, resource management, risk management, execution and monitoring, communication management, configuration management, and change control. It also discusses tools that can help with project management like Gantt charts, PERT charts, resource histograms, and critical path analysis.
A Review of Agile Software Effort Estimation MethodsEditor IJCATR
Software cost estimation is an essential aspect of software project management and therefore the success or failure of a software
project depends on accuracy in estimating effort, time and cost. Software cost estimation is a scientific activity that requires knowledge of a
number of relevant attributes that will determine which estimation method to use in a given situation. Over the years various studies were done
to evaluate software effort estimation methods however due to introduction of new software development methods, the reviews have not
captured new software development methods. Agile software development method is one of the recent popular methods that were not taken
into account in previous cost estimation reviews. The main aim of this paper is to review existing software effort estimation methods
exhaustively by exploring estimation methods suitable for new software development methods.
The document discusses various aspects of software project management including the management scope, people, product, process, and project. It also covers the W5HH principle for defining key project characteristics including why the system is being developed, what will be done, when it will be done, who is responsible, where people are located, how the job will be done technically and authoritatively, and how many resources are needed. Finally, it discusses software metrics for measuring aspects like size, quality, and productivity.
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A computer network is a set of devices connected through links. A node can be computer, printer, or any other device capable of sending or receiving the data. The links connecting the nodes are known as communication channels.
Computer Network uses distributed processing in which task is divided among several computers. Instead, a single computer handles an entire task, each separate computer handles a subset.
Following are the advantages of Distributed processing:
Security: It provides limited interaction that a user can have with the entire system. For example, a bank allows the users to access their own accounts through an ATM without allowing them to access the bank's entire database.
Faster problem solving: Multiple computers can solve the problem faster than a single machine working alone.
Security through redundancy: Multiple computers running the same program at the same time can
This document discusses managing computing projects. It defines what a project and software project are, and explains the need for software project management. It describes triple constraints for software projects involving quality, cost, and schedule. Key software project management activities are outlined, including planning, scope management, estimation, scheduling, resource management, risk management, execution and monitoring. Common project management tools like Gantt charts, PERT charts, and resource histograms are also summarized.
This document provides an overview of software estimation techniques. It discusses why estimation is important, the general estimation process, and factors that impact accuracy such as requirements management and experience. The document also describes different estimation methods like expert judgment, analogy-based, top-down, and bottom-up. It provides examples of estimation tools like Function Point Analysis and COCOMO II for sizing and effort estimation.
Lect-5: Work Breakdown Structure and Project Cost EstimationMubashir Ali
This document discusses work breakdown structures (WBS) and project cost estimation. It begins by defining a WBS as a method to divide complex projects into simpler, manageable tasks. This allows projects to be more easily planned, scheduled, and budgeted. The document then provides examples of how to outline a WBS and discusses how WBS helps managers assign responsibilities and monitor projects. It also discusses different cost estimation techniques like expert judgement, analogy, and algorithmic modeling. Overall, the document provides an overview of how WBS is used to define project scope and organize work, and different approaches to estimating project costs.
This document discusses software project scheduling. It explains that project scheduling involves identifying tasks, determining dependencies between tasks, estimating task durations, allocating resources, and determining start and end dates. The critical path is the sequence of tasks that determines the project duration. The document also discusses software prototyping, which involves creating initial prototypes, reviewing them, and revising them based on feedback, to help define requirements before full development. Common prototyping methods include incremental, throwaway, extreme, and evolutionary prototyping.
The chapter discusses project planning, scheduling, and estimation techniques. It covers creating a project plan with tasks, durations, dependencies and resources. Scheduling involves representing the plan with bar charts and staff allocation charts. Estimation is challenging due to uncertainties but becomes more accurate over time. Planning in XP uses story-based planning with iterative selection of stories and releases.
Software Metrics, Project Management and EstimationBulbul Agrawal
The document discusses software metrics, project management, and estimation techniques. It defines different types of metrics including product, process, and project metrics. It also discusses quality metrics, project management fundamentals involving people, product, process and project, and estimation techniques like function point analysis, lines of code estimation, and the COCOMO model. Project scheduling techniques like Gantt charts and critical path analysis are also covered. The conclusion emphasizes that metrics, project management, and estimation are essential for successful software development.
A Pattern-Language-for-software-DevelopmentShiraz316
The document discusses the Scrum framework for agile software development. It notes that traditional defined process approaches make incorrect assumptions that requirements, solutions, developers, and environments can be fully defined and repeated. Scrum addresses this by dividing projects into short "Sprints" of fixed time periods, usually 1 month or less. Each Sprint pulls tasks from a prioritized backlog and aims to deliver working software. Daily Scrum meetings help teams self-organize and resolve issues. At the end of each Sprint, teams demonstrate progress to customers and prioritize new tasks for the next Sprint. By continually adapting requirements and quickly delivering working software, Scrum allows for the uncertainties of software development.
The document discusses various aspects of project management for software development projects. It covers topics like project planning, estimation techniques, scheduling, risk analysis, quality management planning, change management planning, and plan-driven versus agile development approaches. Project planning involves breaking work into tasks, scheduling, and anticipating potential problems. Estimation considers factors like costs, resources, complexity, and historical data from similar projects. Scheduling graphically represents the project plan timeline. Agile methods use iterative development and flexible planning compared to plan-driven approaches.
This document discusses project management principles and processes. It covers topics such as the importance of project management, knowledge areas, project identification and planning, risk management, and project execution. The document provides examples of projects and defines characteristics that distinguish projects from routine tasks. It also discusses project life cycles, activities involved in project execution like requirements analysis and testing, and potential problems in software projects.
The document discusses various techniques for project planning and cost estimation in software development projects. It covers topics such as project planning, scheduling, risk analysis, cost estimation models like COCOMO, and agile planning techniques like release planning in XP. Project planning involves breaking work into tasks, assigning resources, anticipating risks. Cost is estimated using experience-based techniques or algorithmic models that take into account factors like size, reuse, and team capabilities. Agile methods use iterative planning to select stories for increments based on priorities and progress.
The document discusses software project planning and cost estimation. It covers the 4Ps model of project planning - product, process, people, and project. It then discusses various software size and cost estimation techniques, including lines of code, function points analysis, heuristic models like COCOMO, and empirical and analytical estimation approaches. COCOMO is described as one of the most commonly used software estimation models, predicting effort and schedule based on size.
Particle Swarm Optimization–Long Short-Term Memory based Channel Estimation w...IJCNCJournal
Paper Title
Particle Swarm Optimization–Long Short-Term Memory based Channel Estimation with Hybrid Beam Forming Power Transfer in WSN-IoT Applications
Authors
Reginald Jude Sixtus J and Tamilarasi Muthu, Puducherry Technological University, India
Abstract
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) helps to overcome various difficulties in future technology wireless communications. NOMA, when utilized with millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, channel estimation becomes extremely difficult. For reaping the benefits of the NOMA and mm-Wave combination, effective channel estimation is required. In this paper, we propose an enhanced particle swarm optimization based long short-term memory estimator network (PSOLSTMEstNet), which is a neural network model that can be employed to forecast the bandwidth required in the mm-Wave MIMO network. The prime advantage of the LSTM is that it has the capability of dynamically adapting to the functioning pattern of fluctuating channel state. The LSTM stage with adaptive coding and modulation enhances the BER.PSO algorithm is employed to optimize input weights of LSTM network. The modified algorithm splits the power by channel condition of every single user. Participants will be first sorted into distinct groups depending upon respective channel conditions, using a hybrid beamforming approach. The network characteristics are fine-estimated using PSO-LSTMEstNet after a rough approximation of channels parameters derived from the received data.
Keywords
Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Bit Error Rate (BER), mm-Wave, MIMO, NOMA, deep learning, optimization.
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An In-Depth Exploration of Natural Language Processing: Evolution, Applicatio...DharmaBanothu
Natural language processing (NLP) has
recently garnered significant interest for the
computational representation and analysis of human
language. Its applications span multiple domains such
as machine translation, email spam detection,
information extraction, summarization, healthcare,
and question answering. This paper first delineates
four phases by examining various levels of NLP and
components of Natural Language Generation,
followed by a review of the history and progression of
NLP. Subsequently, we delve into the current state of
the art by presenting diverse NLP applications,
contemporary trends, and challenges. Finally, we
discuss some available datasets, models, and
evaluation metrics in NLP.
Sri Guru Hargobind Ji - Bandi Chor Guru.pdfBalvir Singh
Sri Guru Hargobind Ji (19 June 1595 - 3 March 1644) is revered as the Sixth Nanak.
• On 25 May 1606 Guru Arjan nominated his son Sri Hargobind Ji as his successor. Shortly
afterwards, Guru Arjan was arrested, tortured and killed by order of the Mogul Emperor
Jahangir.
• Guru Hargobind's succession ceremony took place on 24 June 1606. He was barely
eleven years old when he became 6th Guru.
• As ordered by Guru Arjan Dev Ji, he put on two swords, one indicated his spiritual
authority (PIRI) and the other, his temporal authority (MIRI). He thus for the first time
initiated military tradition in the Sikh faith to resist religious persecution, protect
people’s freedom and independence to practice religion by choice. He transformed
Sikhs to be Saints and Soldier.
• He had a long tenure as Guru, lasting 37 years, 9 months and 3 days
2. How Time
and Effort
Differ
The first questions typically asked by those
looking to have software developed is, “How
long will it take and how much will it cost?”
But from a pure cost standpoint, that answer
is all based on how much effort is required.
To answer the question of How Much Effort?
– we need to make a distinction between
effort and time. Effort is how many hours of
work need to go into a project; Time is how
long something takes from start to finish.
3. Determining - “How Much Effort?”
• The first part of pricing comes down to how much effort is needed to
achieve the desired outcome. i.e. how many engineers and how many of
their hours per day will be required to get the job done.
• Once we know how much effort a project will take in a perfect world, we
then must consider what circumstances outside of our control may come
into play like
• the ability of a client to dedicate staff to work with the project team for
requirements analysis, design checks and user testing
• what needs to be done to get a cloud-based solution approved
• what is the deployment process?
• These types of issues can exaggerate the difference between effort and
timeline – and the longer the timeline extends, the more project
management effort is needed to keep everything on track.
4. ESTIMATION
Estimation is the process of finding an estimate, or
approximation, which is a value that can be used
for some purpose even if input data may be
incomplete, uncertain, or unstable. It determines
how much money, effort, resources, and time it will
take to build a specific system or product.
Estimation is based on −
• Past Data/Experience
• Available Documents/Knowledge
• Assumptions
• Identified Risks
The four basic steps in Software Project Estimation
are −
• Estimate the size of the development product.
• Estimate the effort in person-months or
person-hours.
• Estimate the schedule in calendar months.
• Estimate the project cost in agreed currency.
5. COMMON ATTRIBUTES
ESTIMATION
PROCEDURES
For any new software project, it is necessary to
know how much it will cost to develop and how
much development time will it take. These
estimates are needed before development is
initiated, but how is this done? Several estimation
procedures have been developed and are having
the following attributes in common.
• Project scope must be established in advanced.
• Software metrics are used as a support from
which evaluation is made.
• The project is broken into small PCs which are
estimated individually.
• Used symbol decomposition techniques to
generate project cost and schedule estimates.
• Acquire one or more automated estimation
tools.
6. WHAT IS THE
SOFTWARE
COST
ESTIMATION?
• Software cost estimation is the process of
predicting the effort required to develop a software
system. It forecast the financial and other resources
needed to complete a project within a defined scope. As
a number of these models rely on a software size
estimate as input, we first provide an overview of
common size metrics. We then highlight the cost
estimation models that have been proposed and used
successfully.
• Cost estimation accounts for each element required
for the project—from materials to labor—
and calculates a total amount that determines a
project's budget.
What is difference between estimating and costing?
Estimating and Costing are closely the same things.
The estimate is defined as the process of calculating or
computing the various quantities and the expected
expenditure to be incurred on a particular work or
project. The estimate gives the probable cost of the
work.
7. USES OF
COST
ESTIMATION
1. In monitoring the project's progress, one needs to
access whether the project is progressing
according to the procedure and takes corrective
action, if necessary.
2. The purpose of cost estimation is to predict the
quantity, cost, and price of the resources required
to complete a job within the project scope. Cost
estimates are used to bid on new business from
prospective clients and to inform your job and
budget planning process.
3. In project management process, in order to enable
the time, money and work within the scope of
the resources to get the best use of, people
developed many cost estimation method, in order
to try to get a better estimate. Precise software
cost estimate is an indispensable part as an
effectively software management.
8. Factors of Software Costing
There are 3 main factors that most affect software development effort/pricing:
1. Type of Software Project
2. Size of Software Project
3. Development Team Size
1. Type of Software Project
Depending upon the types of projects, different team makeup and requires a different amount of
development effort that may reflect to determine the final estimate. E.g.
• New Software Development – new software, involving custom development.
• Software Modification – Enhancement of existing software.
• Software Integration – Custom code to add capability or integrate existing software into other
processes.
• Web Development – custom web-based software development
9. Factors of Software Costing
2. Size of Software Project
The next step is to determine the size of a project. Generally, project sizes fall into the following
categories:
• Small - A small project usually involves minor changes. Typically, things like tweaks to the user
interface or bug fixes that are well defined with a known cause.
• Medium - Projects such as a small mobile application or a web interface to an existing inventory
system would fall into this category. The external requirements for interaction with a client are more
robust than small projects. This might include a few design sessions, weekly check-ins, and milestone
sign-offs.
• Large - Large projects may require integration with multiple systems, have a database component, and
address security and logging features. An underlying framework and a module-based design are
common, taking into consideration scalability and maintainability. The external requirements for
interaction with the client are very robust, i.e daily calls and interactions with technical team members
followed by weekly status calls with higher-level management are standard.
• Enterprise - Enterprise-level projects are almost exclusively built upon an underlying
framework. They have much more rigorous security, logging, and error handling. Data integrity
and security are paramount to these business-critical applications.
10. Factors of Software Costing
3. Development Team Size (per Project)
Once the project is defined in terms of type and size, the next factor to be
determined is the team size. Every project requires at least 3 roles – a Project
Manager, a Developer, and a QA Tester. However, that does not mean that every
role equates to one team resource. Some resources can fulfill more than one role.
For example, In a small project, a Developer may also fill the role of Tester. In a
small/medium project, the Project Manager may also fulfill the role of Business
Analyst, and so forth. For larger, complex projects – team resources usually fulfill
only one role to effectively move the project forward.
Scheduling and maintaining a dedicated project team is instrumental in
completing the project most efficiently. There is nothing more detrimental to a
project than continually stopping and starting- it can be hard to regain the
momentum to get the project back on track.
11. Techniques
used in cost
estimation
In project management process, in order
to enable the time, money and work within
the scope of the resources to get the best
use, people developed many cost estimation
method, in order to try to get a better estimate.
Precise software cost estimate is an
indispensable part as an effectively software
management.
There is an abundance of techniques and
models which help in cost estimation in the
software industry. Here's a brief outline of the
various techniques with a mention of their
specialties and limitations.
12. Methods of Cost
Estimation
1. Algorithmic (Parametric) model
2. Expert Judgment (Expertise
Based)
3. Top - Down
4. Bottom - Up
5. Estimation by Analogy
13. 1. Algorithmic (Parametric) Model
• This software cost estimation technique use the mathematical equations to perform the
software estimation. The mathematical equations are based on historical data or theory. SLOC
(source line of code), function points, and other cost drivers are the inputs. For most
algorithmic model, calibration to the specific software environment can be performed to
improve the estimation. Examples of the parametric models are COCOMO (COnstructive COst
MOdel), COCOMO II, Putnam's software life-cycle model (SLIM).
• Advantages:
• Generate repeatable estimations
• Easy to modify input data
• Easy to refine and customize formulas
• Objectively calibrated to experience
• Disadvantages:
• Unable to deal with exceptional conditions
• Some experience and factors can not be quantified
• Sometimes algorithms may be proprietary
14. 2. Expert Judgement Model
• This technique captures the experience and the knowledge of the estimator who
provides the estimate based on their experience from a similar project to which they
have participated. Examples are the Delphi, Wideband Delphi and Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS).
• Advantages:
• Useful in the absence of quantified, empirical data.
• Can factor in differences between past project experiences and requirements of the
proposed project
• Can factor in impacts caused by new technologies, applications and languages.
• Disadvantages:
• Estimate is only as good expert’s opinion
• Hard to document the factors used by the experts
15. 3. Top-Down Model
• This technique is also called Macro Model, which utilize the global view of the product
and then partitioned into various low level components. Example of this technique is
the Putnam model.
• Advantages:
• Requires minimal project detail
• Usually faster and easier to implement
• Focus on system level activities
• Disadvantages:
• Tend to overlook low level components
• No detailed basis
16. 4. Bottom-Up Model
• The cost of each software components is estimated first and then the results are
combined to derive the final cost estimation for the project. An example is the
COCOMO’s detailed model.
• Advantages:
• More stable
• More detailed
• Allow each software group to hand an estimate
• Disadvantages:
• May overlook system level costs
• More time consuming
17. 5. Estimation by Analogy Model
• This technique utilize the actual data that is extrapolated from a previous
completed project and compare that with the proposed project in the same
application domain to derive the cost estimate.
• Advantages:
• Based on actual project data
• Disadvantages:
• Impossible if no comparable project had been tackled in the past.
• How well does the previous project represent this one
18. z
1. Algorithmic (parametric) model: A model is developed using historical cost information which relates
some software metric (usually its size) to the project cost.
2. Expert Judgement: This method of cost estimation makes use of the tenure-based project experience
gained by the estimator. All the domain-based knowledge achieved by working in similar projects is
brought to the fore in arriving at an estimated figure. This technique has been found to be very useful
where there is a lack of quantifiable data.
3. Estimation by analogy : In this method, merely uses information and experience gained by a previously
executed project. Using the tool of extrapolation, this data is compared with the information derived
from the proposed project with similar area of expertise, to conclusively arrive at a rough cost
estimate.
4. Top down approach: Also called as the Macro model, this approach initiates with coming down to
every major detail related to the software product or project. Thereafter, the product/project is divided
into components belonging to lower levels. Following this, distinct labour categories are created
relevant for each segregated task. The product of the costs incurred and the number of tasks involved
is calculated to get to the final figure for the total labour costs incurred in the project.
5. Bottom up approach: In this method, the project managers add on to their costs upwards initiating
from the lowermost levels. The process is time consuming as every possible expense be it labour
related or equipment based is added up starting from the foundation levels. This approach is well
suited to large multi faceted projects.
Techniques used in cost estimation
19. Cost
Estimation
Models
A model may be static or dynamic. In a static model, a
single variable is taken as a key element for calculating
cost and time. In a dynamic model, all variable are
interdependent, and there is no basic variable.
20. Static, Single Variable Models: When a model makes use
of single variables to calculate desired values such as cost,
time, efforts, etc. is said to be a single variable model. The
most common equation is:
C=aLb
Where C = Costs; L= size ; a and b are constants
The Software Engineering Laboratory established a model
called SEL model, based on data and analysis from previous
cleanroom efforts within the SEL and is tailored to serve as a
guideline in applying the methodology to future production
software efforts. This model is an example of the static, single
variable model.
E=1.4L0.93
DOC=30.4L0.90
D=4.6L0.26
Where E= Efforts (Person Per Month)
DOC=Documentation (Number of Pages)
D = Duration (D, in months)
L = Number of Lines per code
STATIC,
SINGLE
VARIABLE
MODELS
21. • In some model, several variables are needed to describe the
software development process, and selected equation
combined these variables to give the estimate of time &
cost. These models are called multivariable models.
• WALSTON and FELIX develop the models at IBM provide the
following equation gives a relationship between lines of
source code and effort:
E=5.2L0.91
• In the same manner duration of development is given by
D=4.1L0.36
The productivity index uses 29 variables which are found to
be highly correlated productivity as follows:
Where Wi is the weight factor for the ith variable and
Xi={-1,0,+1} the estimator gives Xi one of the values -1, 0 or
+1 depending on the variable decreases, has no effect or
increases the productivity.
STATIC,
MULTIVARIA
BLE
MODELS
22. Compare the Walston-Felix Model
with the SEL model on a software
development expected to involve 8
person-years of effort.
1. Calculate the number of lines of
source code that can be produced.
2. Calculate the duration of the
development.
3. Calculate the productivity in
LOC/PY
4. Calculate the average manning
EXAMPLE
STATIC,
MULTIVARIA
BLE
MODELS
23. SOLUTION
The amount of manpower involved = 8PY=96persons-months
(1) Number of lines of source code can be obtained by reversing equation to give:
Then
L (SEL) = (96/1.4)1⁄0.93=94264 LOC
L (SEL) = (96/5.2)1⁄0.91=24632 LOC
(2) Duration in months can be calculated by means of equation
D (SEL) = 4.6 (L) 0.26
= 4.6 (94.264)0.26 = 15 months
D (W-F) = 4.1 L0.36
= 4.1 (24.632)0.36 = 13 months
24. SOLUTION
(3) Productivity is the lines of code produced per persons/month (year)
(4) Average manning is the average number of persons required per month in the
project