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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
1. Why Software Effort Estimation?
Author : Adam Trendowicz
Published in: Software Cost Estimation, Benchmarking, and Risk Assessment
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
Software is everywhere. Most of today’s goods and services are realized, at least in part, either by means of or with the help of software systems. Our dependency on software is increasing continuously. On the one hand, progress in the domains where software has traditionally been playing a key role entails increasing pressure upon software to progress. On the other hand, in domains that were traditionally reserved for hardware, software has become the major driving force of the overall progress in the meanwhile. For example, it is said that 60–90 % of all advances in the automotive domain nowadays are due to software systems. Some products and services that would have traditionally been realized through “hardware” solutions are now realized through software systems. Other products and services are only possible through software systems and could not have been realized by other means. One way or another, the size and complexity of software systems in various domains are increasing rapidly.