Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering 8th Edition by Stephen Schach

النسخة 8الرقم المعياري الدولي: 978-0073376189

Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering 8th Edition by Stephen Schach

النسخة 8الرقم المعياري الدولي: 978-0073376189

تمرين 1

You are in charge of automating a multi-site architectural practice. The cost of developing the software has been estimated to be $530,000. Approximately how much additional money will be needed for postdelivery maintenance of the software?

التوضيح

موثّق

The software maintenance cost is very high when compared to the development cost. The software need to be maintained constantly to compete with the today's changing real world. Thus, the companies spend more money on the maintenance of the software. The software maintenance cost is approximately 3 times the development cost. Approximately 75% of the software budget is spending on post-delivery maintenance.

The cost of developing the software is estimated to be

. The 25% of the cost is spending on development. The remaining 75% of the money is spending on the maintenance.

Therefore, the post-delivery maintenance cost is