Software estimation provides an important tool for project planning; whose quality and accuracy greatly affect the success of a project. There are several area of the software engineering in which we can use the function point analysis like project planning, project construction, software implementation etc. In software development, accuracy and efficiency of cost estimation methodology for a w...

Globalization is adding more dimensions to software effort estimation process. The notions of leadership and culture carry with them highly variable assumptions, and thus, must be explicitly modeled. A new model that incorporates leadership and culture is proposed, elaborated and validated. A survey was undertaken to determine the impact of culture and its effect on the software development pro...

Software Cost Estimation can be described as the process of predicting the most realistic effort required to complete a software project. Due to the strong relationship of accurate effort estimations with many crucial project management activities, the research community has been focused on the development and application of a vast variety of methods and models trying to improve the estimation ...

Software projects often do not meet their scheduling and budgeting targets. Inaccurate estimates are often responsible for this mismatch. This study investigates extant research on factors that affect accuracy of software development effort estimation. The purpose is to synthesize existing knowledge, propose directions for future research, and improve estimation accuracy in practice. A systemat...

A cornerstone of software project management is effort estimation, the process by which effort is forecasted and used as basis to predict costs and allocate resources effectively, so enabling projects to be delivered on time and within budget. Effort estimation is a very complex domain where the relationship between factors is non-deterministic and has an inherently uncertain nature, and where ...

Software Effort estimation is the process of predicting the effort required to develop software project based on incomplete, uncertain and/or noisy input. Researchers have been working on estimation models to predict effort to be spent on a software project, which is still a complex problem. Estimation models derived by researchers are conclusion of studying large number of completed software p...

Context: software development effort estimation is a crucial management task that critically depends on the adopted size measure. Several Functional Size Measurement (FSM) methods have been proposed. COSMIC is considered a 2nd generation FSM method, to differentiate it from Function Point Analysis (FPA) and its variants, considered as 1st generation ones. In the context of Web applications, few...

Accurate estimation of software’s cost isone of the most intricate activity during the software development lifecycle.There are many factors that directly or indirectly affect the development cost of any software and these factors range from the size of the software to the experience of project manager. Calculating and interpreting these factors would be much valuable in software cost estimatio...

This paper discusses some applications of statistical condition estimation (SCE) to the problem of solving linear systems. Specifically, triangular and bidiagonal matrices are studied in some detail as typical of structured matrices. Such a structure, when properly respected, leads to condition estimates that are much less conservative compared with traditional non-statistical methods of condit...

Software effort and cost estimation has turned out to be the major challenge in IT industries. In this paper, different software effort and cost estimation techniques like algorithmic methods, expert judgment, analogy based estimation and soft computing methods and their various aspects are discussed. Software effort estimation is followed by cost assessment that is useful for both customers an...