%0 Journal Article
%4 sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21c/2018/10.03.18.08
%2 sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21c/2018/10.03.18.08.58
%@issn 1548-0992
%T Safety critical software effort estimation using COCOMO II: a case study in aeronautical industry
%D 2018
%8 July
%9 journal article
%A Santos, Lucas Pereira dos,
%A Ferreira, Maurício Gonçalves Vieira,
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@electronicmailaddress lucas.pds@gmail.com
%@electronicmailaddress mauricio@ccs.inpe.br
%B IEEE Latin America Transactions
%V 16
%N 7
%P 2069-2078
%K software development, software cost estimation, software effort estimation, software cost prediction, software effort prediction, cocomo, safety-critical software.
%X This paper provides a case study of a real aeronautical safety-critical software development project under the DO-178C processes, where the COCOMO II method was applied as an estimation technique for the required software development effort. The main goal and contribution of the case study is to support the research on software effort estimation and provide software practitioners with useful data based on a real project. We collected the actual required effort for the project and then compared to the estimated values. The rationales for each scale factor and effort multiplier selection were also described in details. We found a Magnitude of Relative Error (MRE) of 31% and provided alternatives for future work in order to increase the effort estimation accuracy in safety critical software projects.
%@language en
%3 santos_safety.pdf