Calibration and Validation of the Checkpoint Model to the Air Force Electronic Systems Center Software Database

<p>Shrinking DOD budgets coupled with increasing software demands have brought close attention to DOD's general inability to accurately estimate software costs for software-intensive systems. The use of uncalibrated or improperly calibrated software cost models is a significant source of these inaccurate cost estimates. This research effort focused on the calibration and validation of CHECKPOINT Version 2.3.1 a computerized software cost estimating tool to the USAF Electronic Systems Center (ESC) software database. This thesis is a direct follow-on to a 1996 CHECKPOINT study at the Air Force Institute of Technology which successfully calibrated and validated the CHECKPOINT model to the SMC software database.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>