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From: victor@concour.CS.Concordia.CA (Victor Krawczuk)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Using COCOMO to estimate development schedules
Keywords: COCOMO, software development
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Date: 24 Mar 89 15:30:40 GMT
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In article <351@tahoma.UUCP> lrm5110@tahoma.UUCP (Larry R. Masden) writes:
>I've seen references to a method of estimating software
>development schedules and costs called COCOMO.  I'm interested,
>and I would appreciate some good references or brief descriptions 
>of the system.
>
>Thanks!
>

    A brief description can be found on pp. 76-82 in a book
by Richard Fairley called "Software Engineering
Concepts" (McGraw-Hill, Inc.).
    Call letters are QA76.6.F35 1985.  It's a pretty 
popular book & should be available in all university
libraries.  This book gives a broad overall picture of
S.E.