Re: Estimation techniques used in embedded porting projects



ssubbarayan wrote:

I would like to know what techniques industry uses or you experts
have followed while doing effort estimation for embedded software
porting sort of project with RTOS and couple of tasks.

My guess would be that there are no standard techniques for this, simply because the job of "porting" is so unspecified. The software part of it will range from a few hours or days to port a project from one CPU to a different one from the same family (and redesigned PCB to go with it), to what effectively amounts to a complete rewrite from scratch if you port to a different CPU, with different peripherals and a different RTOS.

The biggest difficulty we face is in conveying to the client the
needed time based on perfect estimates.

There ain't no such thing as a perfect estimate.
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