Boehm proposed COCOMO (Constructive Cost Estimation Model) in 1981.COCOMO is one of the most generally used software estimation models in the world. COCOMO predicts the efforts and schedule of a software product based on the size of the software.
The necessary steps in this model are:
- Get an initial estimate of the development effort from evaluation of thousands of delivered lines of source code (KDLOC).
- Determine a set of 15 multiplying factors from various attributes of the project.
- Calculate the effort estimate by multiplying the initial estimate with all the multiplying factors i.e., multiply the values in step1 and step2.
The initial estimate (also called nominal estimate) is determined by an equation of the form used in the static single variable models, using KDLOC as the measure of the size. To determine the initial effort Ei in person-months the equation used is of the type is shown below
Ei=a(KDLOC)b*