Das Buch Software Engineering Economics beschäftigt sich mit den Kosten der Software-Herstellung und untersucht Faktoren, welche diese Kosten beeinflussen.
Das CoCoMo (Constructive Cost Modelling) Modell wird vorgestellt. Das CoCoMo Modell erlaubt die systematische Kostenschätzung auf der Basis von Erfahrungswerten.
Aus dem Umschlagtext:
The primary learning objectives of Software Engineering Economics by Barry W. Boehm are to: identify the factors most strongly influencing software costs and use them to determine the estimated costs of a software project; understand the concepts of microeconomcics as they apply to software engineering; and apply economic analysis techniques to software engineering decision situations:
Among its special features, the book:
explains the fundamental concepts of microeconomics and demonstrates their utility through a practical, singlethread software engineering example
presents the COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO); the most advanced, thoroughly calibrated software cost estimation model available today
provides extensive case-study examples of the use of the COCOMO model for software life-cycle cost -benefit analysis and for software project planning and control