Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering metrics and models
Nine management guidelines for better cost estimating
Communications of the ACM
Estimation of information systems development efforts: a pilot study
Information and Management
Causes of inaccurate software development cost estimates
Journal of Systems and Software
COBRA: a hybrid method for software cost estimation, benchmarking, and risk assessment
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
Software development cost estimation approaches – A survey
Annals of Software Engineering
Cost estimation for web applications
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
ASWEC '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Australian Software Engineering Conference
A Survey on Software Estimation in the Norwegian Industry
METRICS '04 Proceedings of the Software Metrics, 10th International Symposium
Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes (Sei Series in Software Engineering)
Letters: The Cone of Uncertainty
IEEE Software
Software project economics: a roadmap
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
How large are software cost overruns? A review of the 1994 CHAOS report
Information and Software Technology
Coping with the cone of uncertainty: an empirical study of the SAIV process model
ICSP'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Software process
COCOMO-U: an extension of COCOMO II for cost estimation with uncertainty
SPW/ProSim'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Software Process Simulation and Modeling
A review of studies on expert estimation of software development effort
Journal of Systems and Software
Information and Software Technology
Detecting conflicts and inconsistencies in web application requirements
ICWE'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Current Trends in Web Engineering
Software industry in Okinawa: the critical success factors for the Japanese Bangalore
Proceedings of the CUBE International Information Technology Conference
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Although a lot of attention has been paid to software cost estimation since 1960, making accurate effort and schedule estimation is still a challenge. To collect evidence and identify potential areas of improvement in software cost estimation, it is important to investigate the estimation accuracy, the estimation method used, and the factors influencing the adoption of estimation methods in current industry. This paper analyzed 112 projects from the Chinese software project benchmarking dataset and conducted questionnaire survey on 116 organizations to investigate the above information. The paper presents the current situations related to software project estimation in China and provides evidence-based suggestions on how to improve software project estimation. Our survey results suggest, e.g., that large projects were more prone to cost and schedule overruns, that most computing managers and professionals were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with the project estimation, that very few organizations (15%) used model-based methods, and that the high adoption cost and insignificant benefit after adoption were the main causes for low use of model-based methods.