The Rosetta Stone Making COCOMO 81 Estimates Work with COCOMO II

Abstract

As part of our efforts to help COCOMO users, we, the COCOMO research team at the Center for Software Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), have developed the Rosetta Stone for converting COCOMO 81 files to run using the new COCOMO II software cost estimating model. The Rosetta Stone is very important because it allows users to update estimates made with the earlier version of the model so that they can take full advantage of the many new features incorporated into the COCOMO II package. This paper describes both the Rosetta Stone and guidelines for making the job of conversion easy.