OO process and metrics for effort estimation

Abstract

Software development remains difficult to plan. Object-orientation has thus far not changed the picture. However due to the greater continuity in 00 across the life-cycle (objects everywhere), there is hope that 00 technology may improve the predictability of 00 projects. Last year’s Pragmatic and Theoretical Directions in Object-Oriented Software Metrics workshop found a division between the two camps: theoretic and pragmatic. Out of the pragmatic camp came an interesting revelation: software development remains difficult to plan.