Software Effort Estimation (SEE) is one of the main activities in development of the software projects. Effort estimation in primary stages of development of the software is one of the important challenges the software projects manager faces. One of the common models of SEE is the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) model. In this model, the effort for development of the software projects is a fun...

Software effort estimation is still a significant challenge for software management. Although Functional Size Measurement (FSM) methods have been standardized and have become widely used by the software organizations, the relationship between functional size and development effort still needs further investigation. Most of the studies focus on the project cost drivers and consider total softwar...

Background: Analogy-Based Effort Estimation (ABE) is one of the efficient methods for software effort estimation because of its outstanding performance and capability of handling noisy datasets. Problem & Objective: Conventional ABE models usually use the same number of analogies for all projects in the datasets in order to make good estimates. Our claim is that using same number of analogies m...

-In software industry Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) is considered to be the most widely used model for effort estimation. Cost drivers have significant influence on the COCOMO and this research investigates the role of cost drivers in improving the precision of effort estimation. It is important to stress that uncertainty at the input level of the COCOMO yields uncertainty at the output, whi...

This paper examines how a team of software professionals goes about estimating the effort of a software project using a judgment-based, bottom-up estimation approach. By employing a social practice perspective that highlights the distributed character of expertise and conceives actions as mediated by cultural tools, the paper analyzes the interactional process through which the estimation tasks...

Accurate estimates of development effort play an important role in the successful management of larger Web development projects. However, estimating the effort required in developing Web applications can be a difficult task. By applying measurement principles to measure the quality of applications and their development processes, feedback can be obtained to help control, improve and predict pro...

Accurate estimation of software development effort needs to consider numerous factors in software projects such as project size, programming language, application type, team size, development platform and so on. Software methodology is one of the most effective parameters in this field. Basically, software methodologies are used in software projects in order to manage activities, artifacts, rol...

Software effort estimates is an important part of software development work and provides essential input to project feasibility analyses, bidding, budgeting and planning. Analogy-based estimates models emerge as a promising approach, with comparable accuracy to arithmetic methods, and it is potentially easier to understand and apply. Studies show all the models are sensitive to the quality and ...

Analytic cost estimation is a valuable aid to assess the eeect of various machine and mapping parameters on program performance. Cost estimation is either based on a model of the parallel algorithm or on a model of the actually generated machine code. Especially in case of a distributed-memory system the diierence in abstraction is large. In this paper we study the trade-oo between analytic cos...

Software effort estimation requires high accuracy, but accurate estimations are difficult to achieve. Increasingly, data mining is used to improve an organization’s software process quality, e.g. the accuracy of effort estimations .There are a large number of different method combination exists for software effort estimation, selecting the most suitable combination becomes the subject of resear...