COCOMO

COCOMO stands for COnstructive COst MOdel

COCOMO ,COnstrustive COst MOdel is static single variable model .
Barry Bohem introduced COCOMO models.
There is a hierarchical of these models.

Model 1:
Basic COCOMO model is static single-valued model that computers software development effort (and cost)
as a function of program size expressed in estimate lines of code.

Model 2 :
Intermediate COCOMO model computers software development effort as a function of program size and a set of "cost drivers"  that include subjective assessments of product ,hardware ,personnel, project attributes.

Model 3:
Advanced COCOMO model incorporates  all characteristics of the intermediate version with an assessment of the cost driver's impact on each step,like analysis ,design ,etc.

COCOMO can be applied to the following software project's categories.
Organic mode
Embedded mode

 Problem :

KLOC =10.9
E = a_b(KLOC)exp(b_b)
    =2.4 (10.9)exp(1.05)
    =29.5 person-month
D = c_b(E)exp(d_b)
     =2.5 (29.5) exp (.38)
    = 9.04 months
where ,
D is the chronological month
KLOC is the estimated number of delivered lines (expressed in thousands ) of code for project


The intermediate COCOMO model takes the following form ;

E = ai(LOC)exp(bi) X EAF
where ,
 E is the effort applied in person-month
LOC is the estimated number of delivered lines of code for the project.

The coefficient ai and the exponent bi are :
Software project      ai          bi
Organic                   3.2        1.05
Semi-detached        3.0       1.12
Embedded              2.8       1.20

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for loop - syntax and explaination

The for loop :-

Syntax:
                   for (initialization;condition ;increase)
                          {         ---------;
                                    statement;
                           }

and its main function is to repeat statement while condition remains true , like the while loop .
But in addition ,for provides places to specify an initialization instruction and an increase instruction .
The three expression inside for loop have to be separated by semicolon. 
So this loop is specially designed to perform a repetitive action with a counter.

It works the following way :

1. Initialization is executed .Generally it is an initial value setting for a counter variable .This is executed only once.
2. Condition is checked ,if it is true the loop continues, otherwise the loop finishes and statement is skipped.
3. Statement is executed . As usual , it can be either single instruction or a block of instruction enclosed within curly brackets{}.

Different forms of for loop: -
1.  single statement:
for(i=0;i<10;i++)
statement;

2. compound statement:
for(i=0;i<10;i++)
{
         ----------;
         statement;
         ----------;
         ----------;
}

3. loop with no body

for(i=0;i<10;i++)
;
      or
for(i=0;i<10;i++);

4.Multiple initialization and multiple updates separated by comma :-
 for(i=0;j=0;i<10;i++;j++)
statement;

5.for (;i<10;i++)

6.for(;i<10;)

7.for(;;)
statement;

Nesting for statement :-
         One for statement can be written within another for statement .This is called nesting of for statement
for(i=0;i<25;i++)
{
    ------------;
    statement;
      for(j=0;j<10;j++)
         {
                statement;
          }
    ---------;
}
 here for every value of i the inner loop will be executed 10 times.

The for loop is very flexible powerful and most commonly used loop.
It is useful when the number of repetition is known in advanced.