Question

Assume that the size of software product has been estimated to be 79,000 lines of source code. Assume that the average salary of a software developer is Rs. 23,000 per month. Determine the effort, time, cost and persons required to develop this software product for all the 3 categories a) Organic b) Semidetached c) Embedded

Answer 1

Historically, the most common software sizing methodology has been counting the lines of code written in the application source. Another approach is to do Functional Size Measurement, to express the functionality size as a number by performing Function point analysis. The original sizing method is the IFPUG.