A case study of workstation usage during the early phases of the software development life cycle

  • Authors:

  • Rakesh M Mital;Marcia M Kim;Richard A Berg

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Sciences Corporation, 46OO Powder Mill Road, Beltsville, Maryland;Computer Sciences Corporation, 46OO Powder Mill Road, Beltsville, Maryland;Computer Sciences Corporation, 46OO Powder Mill Road, Beltsville, Maryland

  • Venue:
  • SDE 2 Proceedings of the second ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

This paper presents initial results in an ongoing study of workstation usage in a real, commercial software development environment. The methodology being supported is explained and the background for the project is presented. Predictions of the resources and schedule required is calculated using the COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO). Actual resources and schedule used to date are presented and shown to be quite favorable with respect to the model predictions. Further discussion of workstation usage and the impact on project performance is presented. Conclusions indicate that workstation use can be quite favorable on software development projects, but the workstations are still only automating the more mundane aspects of the requirements analysis and design phases.