HP WBEM Services Software Developer's Kit for HP-UX Provider and Client Developer's Guide A.01

Factors for Estimating Provider Effort
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• Number of different interfaces, operating systems andplatforms that
will be supported
If you are supporting Windows, Linux and HP-UX on PA-RISC and
IPF, you will have much more work then if youhave one set of calls to
make. If you have multiple interfaces required for the same
information (for example, across OS types and versions and different
hardware), it will take longer to code and test.
— Will support one set of interface calls - 0 Days
— Can get the information mostly through one set of interface calls
- 1 Day
— Will support two similar interface calls - 2 Days
— Will support different interface calls (like on windows and Linux)
- ranges greatly
• Amount of documentation needed
If you need more than a provider data sheet for your provider, you
need to factor in more time.
— Just provider data sheet needed - 2-5 Days
— More documentation needed, work with your documentation
experts to estimate
• Delivery mechanism
If you have a defined and simple delivery process then it will be
faster. We can not give estimates on how much effort is required for
your delivery process since it ranges greatly.
— Just submit to open source - .5 Days
— Other delivery mechanism - ranges greatly
• Packaging
What is required to package a product (i.e., getting product numbers,
buildingdepots, setting upBuildEnvironments, creating SDscripts).
— Use tar package or some other simply bundle - .5 Days
— Use SD - 2 Days
— Other - ranges greatly
• Other factors to consider