Software development resource estimation system

A software development and resource estimation system of deriving a change in product amount when a number of times of specification modifications occur during software development to estimate a development scale, the system comprising:

• an I/O unit configured to recognize, transmit, and output development information, which is information on a specification modification input through a terminal by a user during the software modification, a database configured to accumulate environmental information on the software development on which the specification modification is performed, and a computer including a specification modification estimation calculation unit configured to calculate estimation of a development scale in the specification modification using the information input from the I/O unit and the information stored in the database and to transmit the calculated estimation to the I/O unit;
• wherein the specification modification estimation calculation unit includes:
• an initial development scale calculation unit requesting and obtaining an influence rate representing a degree of influence on a software development environment by each quality characteristic of software set and stored in the database when the development information is received from the I/O unit, and calculating a development scale before the specification modification as an initial development scale by multiplying a product amount baseline representing a standard development scale of the software included in the development information by a value obtained by adding 1 to a total sum of the influence rates;
• a yield calculation unit requesting and obtaining a product amount from the database at the time of generating a development unit when a modification target development unit included in the initial development scale of the initial scale calculation unit and the development information are received, and calculating a yield which is a ratio of the initial development scale to the product amount;
• a specification modification ratio calculation unit receiving a rejection amount of a product or an additional amount of a product, which are included in the development information, and the initial development scale from the initial development scale calculation unit when the product is rejected or added due to the specification modification, and calculating a specification modification ratio, which is a ratio of the rejection amount of the product or the additional amount of the product to the initial development scale;
• an entire development scale calculation unit receiving the initial development scale, the yield, and the specification modification ratio from the initial scale calculation unit, the yield calculation unit, and the specification modification ratio calculation unit, respectively, deriving a resultant development scale which is obtained by adding a value obtained by adding 1 to a total sum of the specification modification ratios to a specification modification of each development unit obtained by multiplying the initial development scale by the yield, and calculating an entire development scale caused by a plurality of specification modifications by totaling the development scales of all development units;
• a specification modification amount calculation unit calculating a specification modification amount which is a modification amount of the product due to the specification modification based on the entire development scale received in the entire development scale calculation unit;
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• a specification modification correction unit receiving a rejection net ratio, calculated by the specification modification ratio calculation unit, which is a comparative ratio between the rejection amount of a product and the initial scale, and the entire development scale from the entire development scale calculation unit when the specification modification causes declination in the number of the specification modification between processes in respect to the specification modification amount, correcting the specification modification ratio by subtracting the received rejection net ratio, and calculating a corrected entire development scale, wherein the I/O unit outputs and displays the development scale and the entire development scale transmitted in the entire development scale calculation unit, the specification modification amount transmitted in the specification modification amount calculation unit, and the corrected entire development scale transmitted in the specification modification correction unit on the terminal of the user.

A software development and resource estimation method of deriving a change in product amount when a number of times of specification modifications occur during software development to estimate a development scale, the software development and resource estimation method comprising:

• providing a I/O unit;
• providing a terminal;
• providing information on a specification modification during software modification via said terminal;
• providing a database comprising environmental information on software development on which the specification modification is performed;
• providing a computer comprising a specification modification estimation calculation unit configured to calculate the estimation of a development scale in the specification modification using the information input from the I/O unit and the information stored in the database and to transmit the calculated estimation to the I/O unit, wherein the specification modification estimation calculation unit sequentially executes the following steps:
• calculating an initial scale based on an influence rate representing a degree of influence on a software development environment by each quality characteristic of software set and stored in the database when the development information is received from the I/O unit, and calculating a development scale before the specification modification as an initial development scale by multiplying a product amount baseline representing a standard development scale of the software included in the development information by a value obtained by adding 1 to a total sum of influence rates;
• calculating a yield based on a product amount from the database at a time of generating a development unit when a modification target development unit included in the initial development scale of the initial scale calculation step and the development information are received, said yield being a ratio of the initial development scale to the product amount;
• calculating a specification modification ratio based on a rejection amount of a product or an additional amount of a product, which are included in the development information, and the initial development scale from the initial development scale calculation step when the product is rejected or added due to the specification modification, said specification modification ratio being a ratio of the rejection amount of the product or the additional amount of the product to the initial development scale;
• deriving a resultant development scale based on the initial development scale, the yield and the specification modification by adding 1 to a total sum of the specification modification ratios to a specification modification of each development unit obtained by multiplying the initial development scale by the yield, and calculating an entire development scale caused by a plurality of specification modifications by totaling the development scales of all development units;
• calculating a specification modification amount, said specification modification amount corresponding to a modification amount of the product amount due to the specification modification based on the entire development scale;
• receiving a rejection net ratio, which corresponds to a comparative ratio between the rejection amount of a product and the initial scale, and the entire development scale when the specification modification causes declination in the number of the specification modification between processes in respect to the specification modification amount and correcting the specification modification ratio by subtracting the received rejection net ratio and calculating a corrected entire development scale;
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• displaying the development scale and the entire development scale, the specification modification amount and the corrected entire development scale on the terminal of the user.