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. | Calibration And Validation Of The Checkpoint Model To The Air Force Electronic Systems Center Software Database by Thomas C Shrum, Paperback