The Challenge of Software Maintenance Costing

Abstract

Software is already a critical element of most DOD and Air Force weapon systems and its role is increasing. From a resources point of view, its acquisition cost is growing as a percentage of the system cost, while its maintenance cost can be many times its acquisition cost. This project addressed the critical area of software cost estimation and in particular, software maintenance estimation. At this point in time software cost estimation is not well understood. A number of approaches, techniques, and models are available. This study attempted to evaluate techniques for software, and software maintenance, costing. The various proposed techniques are reviewed, with prior evaluations summarized. The report ends with a select bibliography of published work in the area and a selection of definitions. (KR)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA213470

Entities

People

  • Roland D. Kankey

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aerospace Industry
  • Air Force
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycles
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis