Preliminary Empirical Study

To develop an algorithmic mapping to ‘effort’ using product characteristics appropriate to MSS other than LOC or external files

MSS development effort is a function of

Building the system content - each media form might have a different impact on development effort

file name, media type, creation effort, digitizing effort, editing effort

Authoring the system - a screen that incorporates a greater number of objects and events would take proportionally greater effort to develop

number of objects, number of links, events on the screen, avg. number of actions per event etc.