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Essentials of Software Engineering, 2nd Edition
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Essentials of Software Engineering, 2nd Edition

by Frank Tsui, Orlando Karam
April 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 44m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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1.5 Implementations 11
ing. This topic will be revisited in detail in Chapter 13. For further reading
on why individuals should keep track of their development time, see
Humphrey (1996). Accurate estimation is very hard to achieve. Dividing
tasks into smaller ones and keeping data about previous tasks and estimates
are usually a helpful beginning.
It is important that the estimation is done by the people who do the job,
which is often the programmer. The client also needs to check the estimates
for reasonableness. One big problem with estimating is that it is conceptu-
ally performed before the project is done, but in reality a lot of informa-
tion,
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ISBN: 9780763785345