Question: A software supplier has to produce an application that controls a piece of equipment Lin a factory. A high degree of reliability is needed as

A software supplier has to produce an application
A software supplier has to produce an application that controls a piece of equipment Lin a factory. A high degree of reliability is needed as a malfunction could injure the operators. The algorithms to control the equipment are also complex. The product reliability and complexity are therefore rated as very high. The company would like to take the opportunity to exploit fully the investment that they made in the project by reusing the control system, with suitable modifications, on future contracts. The reusability requirement is therefore rated as very high. Developers are familiar with the platform and the possibility of potential problems in that respect is regarded as low. The current staff are generally very capable and are rated in this respect as very high, but the project is in a somewhat novel application domain for them so experience is rated as nominal. The toolsets available to the developers are judged to be typical for the size of company and are rated as nominal, as is the degree of schedule pressure to meet a deadline. Given the data in Table 5.6, (i) What would be the value for each of the effort multipliers? (ii) What would be the impact of all the effort multipliers on a project estimated as taking 200 staff-months

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