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

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 Cente...