Software Requirements and Estimation

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The context of requirements engineering and software estimation; activities of requirements engineering, including elicitation, analysis, documentation, change management and traceability; description of various methodologies that can be used for requirements elicitation and analysis; contents of the software requirements specification document; functional and technical size estimation methods, estimation by analogy and expert estimation; detailed estimation based on work breakdown structure; do’s and don’s related to requirements and estimation; tools and resources that can be used for requirements and estimation; scenarios, examples, case studies and exercises.

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Swapna Kishore has been operating as a software engineer and manager for over 20 years and is currently operating as an independent IT consultant from New Delhi. Rajesh Naik is a Consulting Partner with QAI (India) Ltd. Table of Contents 1. The Context of Software Requirements and Estimation 2. Requirements Engineering 3. Size Estimation 4. Effort, Schedule and Cost Estimation 5. Making It Work 6. Tools 7. Industry Resources 8. Appendix A: A Sample Software Requirements Specification 9. Appendix B: IFPUG Function Point Calculation 10. Appendix C: QUICK FPA Calculation 11. Appendix D: COCOMO Calibration and Calculation