If you want to reduce software defects, you will want to know which improvement practice will

• minimize startup cost
• minimize calendar time to execute
• maximize the impact of the software development practice with the lowest risk
• meet prerequisites that must be fulfilled for the improvement practice to be effective

The cost module allows you to perform a software reliability cost prediction based on:

• relative time to implement practices to reduce software defects
• relative cost to implement practices to reduce software defects
• relative impact on defect density of those practices
• prerequisites required for every practice
• relative risk of implementing those practices

of more then 600 practices, product characteristics, organizational characteristics associated with the development of software. 

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The below is the standard edition cost module

The below is the Manager's edition cost module

Key Benefits

Software managers and software testing managers have a tool to perform tradeoffs between defects, time and cost; software reliability cost predictions.

Purchasing Requirements

• Requires Windows 2000 or Windows XP
• Frestimate Standard Edition contains the standard cost module
• Frestimate Manager's Edition contains the advanced cost module