When applying estimation methods, the issue of outliers is inevitable. The extent their influence has not been clarified, though several studies have evaluated outlier elimination methods. It unclear whether we should always be sensitive to outliers, removed before estimation, and what amount precaution required for collecting project data. Therefore, goal this study illustrate a guideline that...

Context: Analogy-based software development effort estimation (ASEE) techniques have gained considerable attention from the software engineering community. However, to our knowledge, no systematic mapping has been created of ASEE studies and no review has been carried out to analyze the empirical evidence on the performance of ASEE techniques. Objective: The objective of this research is twofol...

One of the problems in software cost estimation is how to evaluate estimation models. Estimation models are usually evaluated against two attributes: estimation accuracy and estimation consistency. A number of measures are reported in the literature, but they have shortcomings. There is no generally accepted standard to evaluate estimation models and the existing measures sometimes are not cons...

Global Software Development, also known as Distributed Software Development, is originally an outsourcing technique in which the development teams hailing from diverse cultural backgrounds and located at distant remote locations participate in the software development efforts and provide their services through a tightly coupled computer networks like Internet. Accurate software cost and effort ...

Software project management is one of the critical activities in software development process. Many software development projects fail due to poor management of projects. The main aim of software project management team is to count what is countable, measure what is measurable and prepare measurable parameters for continuously monitor and manage a software development project. One of the very i...