Why is Software Late? An Empirical Study of Reasons for Delay in Software Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Causes of inaccurate software development cost estimates
Journal of Systems and Software
An empirical analysis of software effort estimate alterations
Journal of Systems and Software
Estimating Software Project Effort Using Analogies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Metrics: Measurement for Software Process Improvement
Software Metrics: Measurement for Software Process Improvement
Software technology in an automotive company: major challenges
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Experiences from Conducting Semi-structured Interviews in Empirical Software Engineering Research
METRICS '05 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium
Challenges in automotive software engineering
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
A Systematic Review of Software Development Cost Estimation Studies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Software cost estimation errors are increasing in the automotive industry along with the number of software components in modern vehicles. As the software cost estimation is an important and problematic part of project planning there is a need of process improvement to decrease estimation errors. However, to improve the process of cost estimation there is a need to explore whether the perceived cost estimation problem is an estimation problem or if it is a management problem. This paper focuses on inhibitors in the process of software cost estimation in system development projects and reports the results of a study carried out at a Swedish automotive company in order to gain an understanding for the factors that affect the cost estimation process.