Estimation in Software Development Using COCOMO and Functional Point Analysis

Cost estimation is one of the most demanding tasks in project organization. It is to accurately estimate needed resources and required schedules for software improvement projects. The software estimation process include estimating the size of the software product to be created and estimating the effort required, developing beginning project schedules, and at last, estimating overall cost of the project. The ability of the system to find out accurate time and cost of the software is very essential for the success of the system. There are different way and different types of method to estimate cost and time of the software. In this paper I have use the cocomo and functional point analysis to find out the effort. A new estimate may show over budget or under budget for the project. Effort is a function of size and size is calculated in lines of code (LOC) in direct approach or in indirect approach, size is representing as Function Points (FP). In this paper we use both approach with different method.