Cost Analysis in Context of Change Management in Software Development

Abstract

Software development is considered to be the most important field in software engineering. As many researches focused on the issues related to accurate and efficient software cost and effort estimation in software development project. Software development projects have a high dynamic nature so accurate software cost estimation in context of change management is a highly difficult task. Also because of accurate software cost estimation is the project manager’s responsibility so estimating cost at early stages of software development life cycle is considered to be most challenging task. Hence this paper address the issues related to consistent cost estimation in context of change management in software development. This research conducted survey and structured interview to collect the data from different software industries of Pakistan. Based on descriptive analysis of data, collected from different software industries of Pakistan this research proposed a solution for estimating cost in context of change management.