The proposed work is to focus on the various factors affecting the people-oriented environment that will lead to more acceptable agile software cost estimation model. The estimation being a multi-valued, concurrent, functional and logical process, several medium and small-scale software development organizations are facing a major problem in arriving at a robust estimation model. The most appro...

Complexity and development effort estimation models are developed based on a set of Component Oriented metrics. Our view focuses on the efforts for the identification and the integration of existing components, as the most important types of development activities in this emerging paradigm. The metrics set that is used in this research, therefore, is specifically configured considering the comp...

Although Functional Size Measurement (FSM) methods have become widely used by the software organizations, the functional size based effort estimation still needs further investigation. Most of the studies on effort estimation consider total functional size of the software as the primary input to estimation models and they mostly focus on identifying the project parameters which might have a sig...

In a recent May 2007 IEEE TSE article, Kitchenham et.al. explored effort estimation and found contradictory evidence about the value of crossvs within-company data. Those contradictory results may have been the result of effort estimation features, some of which are subjective in nature. Static code features are different than effort estimation features. They can be generated in an automatic, r...

This paper discusses a model for effort estimation. This model focuses on minimizing effort variance by enhancing the adjustments made to the functional sizing techniques. A special focus is made on the adjustment factors which reflect the application’s complexity and actual environment in which this application will be implemented. We introduce the idea of grouping the adjustment factors to si...

A software vendor sometimes contracts the maintenance of a software product that other software vendors gave up maintaining due to costs etc. In such case, the vendor must estimate costs of maintenance before contracting. However, due to lack of an objective measure, an expert estimates the cost on the basis of his/her experience. We will propose some metrics for estimating maintenance effort. ...

Estimation of cost and time to develop a software product P is a well known problem. Among the possible ways to do it is analogy with old finished projects. We describe an experiment using different versions of the Fuzzy c-Means algorithm, to find projects similar to P . Then the information about these projects is used to estimate the effort needed to build P .

Software cost estimation is one of the prerequisite managerial activities carried out at the software development initiation stages and also repeated throughout the whole software life-cycle so that amendments to the total cost are made. In software cost estimation typically, a selection of project attributes is employed to produce effort estimations of the expected human resources to deliver a...