Welcome to the COCOMO® Models Page. This is a collection of COCOMO-related estimation models and research in various stages of development. These models attempt to estimate impacts on software system cost, development schedule, defect density, and even return on technology investment associated with a variety of software development approaches and processes. Factors effecting the software cost and schedule estimates, and resulting in derivative COCOMO models and/or tools, include the use of COTS, security, Rapid Application Development approaches, and RUP/MBASE development models (non-waterfall). There are even models going beyond the purely software development arena into systems engineering.
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COCOMO 81
The original COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO) model published in 1981 and now referred to as COCOMO 81. It predicts software development effort, schedule, and effort distribution via point estimates.
The Little COCOMO Calculator by Dr. Brad Clark (Software Metrics Inc.) and Dr. Ray Madachy (Naval Post Graduate School)
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COCOMO II
The updated COCOMO 81 model published in 2000. It predicts software development effort, schedule, and effort distribution via range estimates.
COCOMO II Web Tool by Dr. Ray Madachy (Naval Postgraduate School)
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COCOMO III
The update to the COCOMO II model. This is a work in progress and is not ready for release.
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COSYSMO
The purpose of the COnstructive SYStems Engineering Cost MOdel model is to estimate the Systems Engineering effort for large-scale systems (both software and hardware).
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COQUALMO
The COnstructive QUALity MOdel balances the relationships between Cost, Schedule, and Quality. This model predicts software defects introduced and removed during development.
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COCOTS
COnstructive Commercial Off-The-Shelf software integration cost model focuses on estimating the cost, effort, and schedule associated with using COTS components in a software development project
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CORADMO
COnstruction Rapid Application Development MOdel focuses on the cost of developing software using rapid application development techniques. RAD is an application of any of a number of techniques or strategies to reduce software development cycle time.
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COPLIMO
COnstructive Product Line Investment MOdel consists of a product line development cost model and an annualized post-development life cycle extension. It focuses on modeling the portions of the software that involve product-specific newly-built software, fully reused black-box product line components, and product line comp
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COPSEMO
COnstructive Phase Schedule & Effort MOdel focuses on the cost of developing software as distributed over the development activity stage.
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Agile COCOMO
A COCOMO tool that is very simple to use and easy to learn. Incorporates the full COCOMO parametric model and uses analogy-based estimation to generate accurate results for a new project. The analogy is based on already completed projects and only changes in COCOMO parameters.
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