User's Manual Index

Table of Contents

A a constant

AA – assessment and assimilation

AAF – adaptation adjustment factor

ACAP – analyst capability

Accelerator Keys

Calibrate

Edit

File

Help

Module

Parameters

Phase

Project

View

ADAPT – percentage of adapted components

Adaptation Adjustment Factors

APEX – application experience

ASLOC – Adapted Source Lines of Code

AT components automatically translated

ATPROD – automatic translation productivity

B – Breakage equation

REVL requirement evolution and volatility 

calibration file

Calibrate Menu

Compute

File Load

File Save

File Save As

Project

CLEF – component level estimation form

CM – code modified

COCOMO, What is

Complexity Levels

Cost column

COTS – commercial off the shelf software

CPLX – product complexity

csv file

DATA – database size

Definition checklist for statement counts

DM – design modified

DOCU - documentation

Edit Menu

Add a module

Clear all modules

Copy

Cut

Paste

Undo

Snapshot

Effort Estimation Equation

EM – effort multipliers

Effort Multipliers

Equation option

Estimated person month column

External Inputs

External Interface Files

External Outputs

External Queries

File Menu

Exit

Export

Load Model

Load Project

Make Report

New

Print Preview

Print Screen

Print Setup

Save As Model

Save As Project

Save Project

Save Model

Save Screens

Function Points

FLEX - flexibility

FSWP – full time software programmers

IM – integration and test modified

Integration and Test Project Phase

Integration and Test Module Phase Distribution

KASLOC – adapted source lines of code

KNSLOC – component

Labor rate column

LEXP – language experience

Line of code definition

Logical files

Maintenance

Project Maintenance

Module Maintenance

Mbase Model

model file

EAF

personnel attributes

platform attributes

predictor factors

product attributes

project attributes

Module name column

Module Phase Distribution

Configuration Management and Quality Assurance (CM/QA)

Manuals

Module Office Functions

Product Design

Programming

Requirements analysis

Test Planning

Verification & Validation(V&V)

Nominal Person Month

Overall Module Phase Distribution

Overall Project Phase Distribution

Parameters Menu

PCAP – programmer capability

PCON – personnel continuity

Personnel attributes

Personnel attributes

ACAP

APEX

LEXP

PCAP

PLEX

PCON

PLEX – platform experience

Phase Distribution

COCOMO81

Integration & Test

phase distribution menu

Plans & Requirements

Product Design

Programming

Plans and Requirements Module Phase Distribution

Plans and Requirements Project Phase Distribution

Platform attributes

PVOL

TIME

STOR

PM – person months

PMAT – Process Maturity

PREC - precedentedness

Product attributes

Product attributes

CPLX

DATA

DOCU

RELY

RUSE

Product Design Phase

Product Design Phase Distribution

Productivity column

Programming Module Phase Distribution

Programming Project Phase

project file

EAF

labor rate

SLOC

Project attributes

SCED

SITE

TOOL

Project Phase Distribution

Configuration Management and Quality Assurance (CM/QA)

Manuals

Product Design

Project Office Functions

Programming

Requirements analysis

Test Planning

Verification & Validation(V&V)

PVOL – platform volatility

RELY – software reliability

report file

report file description

Reset option

RESL - resilience

RUSE - reusability

Scale Factors

Scale Factors

Equation

FLEX

PMAT

PREC

Reset

RESL

TEAM

SCED - schedule

Schedule Estimation Equation

SF – scale factors

SITE multi-site development

Sizing Methods

Software Engineering Institute

Sparc cocomo

Stage1

Stage2

Stage3

STOR - storage

SU – software understanding

TDEV – time to develop

TEAM – scale factor

TIME – execution time

TOOL - tool

UNFM – Programmer unfamiliarity

User Defined EAF

USR1

USR2

User defined factors

Waterfall model