Title
Cost Prediction for V&V and Certification Processes
Abstract
Cost (time and effort) estimation is fundamental in system and software management. The software related research, together with industries, elaborated and currently use a large number of different cost estimators (CE). While expert judgment is still the most widely used estimation practice in industry, these estimators take a representative calibration set of projects and use a best matching extrapolation curve to predict the costs of further projects. The approach has proven its usefulness in predicting system and software development cost with the breakdown granularity of the main phases of the workflow (specification, implementation, testing etc.). However, there is no such CE for the broad application field of safety critical applications which would be fine granular enough to predict the costs related to Verification and Validation (V&V) and certification. The paper presents an ongoing work for creating such a V&V specific CE. The usefulness of the approach is illustrated by a \"what-if\" analysis example on the impacts of introducing sophisticated formal methods into the V&V workflow instead of the traditional methodology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/DSN-W.2015.15
DSN Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
cost estimation,safety critical system design,project management,"what-if" analysis,V&V
Dependability,Verification and validation,Computer science,Cost estimate,Formal methods,Certification,Workflow,Software development,Reliability engineering,Project management
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2325-6648
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesco Brancati100.34
András Pataricza251455.25
Nuno Silva300.34
Ábel Hegedüs416710.77
László Gönczy511811.67
Andrea Bondavalli6886133.06
Rosaria Esposito700.34