Estimating the Effort of Mobile Application Development

摘要

The rise of the use of mobile technologies in the world, such as smartphones and tablets,connected to mobile networks is changing old habits and creating new ways for the society toaccess information and interact with computer systems. Thus, traditional information systemsare undergoing a process of adaptation to this new computing context. However, it is importantto note that the characteristics of this new context are different. There are new features and,thereafter, new possibilities, as well as restrictions that did not exist before. Finally, the systemsdeveloped for this environment have different requirements and characteristics than thetraditional information systems. For this reason, there is the need to reassess the currentknowledge about the processes of planning and building for the development of systems in thisnew environment. One area in particular that demands such adaptation is software estimation.The estimation processes, in general, are based on characteristics of the systems, trying toquantify the complexity of implementing them. Hence, the main objective of this paper is topresent a proposal for an estimation model for mobile applications, as well as discuss theapplicability of traditional estimation models for the purpose of developing systems in thecontext of mobile computing. Hence, the main objective of this paper is to present an effortestimation model for mobile applications.