Define well engineered software and characteristics of well-engineered software product?

Well-Engineered Software and characteristics of well-engineered software product

·Provides the required functionality

·Reliable

·User-friendly

·Cost-effective

·Efficient

·Maintainable

 

Breakdown of Effort Cost - Software Cost Estimation by Capers Jones  

Effort Breakdown

•Project Management                 8.08%

•Requirements                          14.43%

•Design                                    11.36%

•Coding                                    13.50%

•SQA                                        30.64%

•SCM                                       13.02%

•Integration                              6.54%

•Misc.                                      ~3%

Software Engineering Practices

•Software product realization

•Software project management

•Software process management

•Software quality assurance

•Software configuration management

Software Engineering Practices

Software Engineering Framework

Common Process Framework