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Software effort estimation plays a critical role in project management. Erroneous results may lead to overestimating or underestimating effort, which can have catastrophic consequences on project resources. Machine-learning techniques are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Ali Bou Nassif , Mohammad Azzeh , Ali Idri , Alain Abran

This paper studies the problem of predicting the coding effort for a subsequent year of development by analysing metrics extracted from project repositories, with an emphasis on projects containing XML code. The study considers thirteen…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Siim Karus , Marlon Dumas

Large project overruns and overtime work have been reported in the software industry, resulting in additional expense for companies and personal issues for developers. The present work aims to provide an overview of studies related to time…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Miikka Kuutila , Mika Mäntylä , Umar Farooq , Maëlick Claes

Engineering projects are the result of the combined effort of their members. Yet, it has been documented that labor division withing projects is unevenly distributed: some project members are specialists undertaking only few tasks, whereas…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sebastiano A. Piccolo , Giorgio Terracina

Technical debt refers to the trade-offs between code quality and faster delivery, impacting future development with increased complexity, bugs, and costs. This study empirically analyzes the additional work effort caused by technical debt…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kartik Gupta

Software project development process is requiring accurate software cost and schedule estimation for achieve goal or success. A lot it referred to as the "Intricate brainteaser" because of its conscience attribute which is impact by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Kardile Vilas Vasantrao

The continuous evolution of software projects necessitates the implementation of changes to enhance performance and reduce defects. This research explores effective strategies for learning and implementing useful changes in software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kartik Gupta

At our behest or otherwise, while our software is being executed, a huge variety of design assumptions is continuously matched with the truth of the current condition. While standards and tools exist to express and verify some of these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Vincenzo De Florio

Lately, software development has become a predominantly online process, as more teams host and monitor their projects remotely. Sophisticated approaches employ issue tracking systems like Jira, predicting the time required to resolve issues…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Dimitrios-Nikitas Nastos , Themistoklis Diamantopoulos , Davide Tosi , Martina Tropeano , Andreas L. Symeonidis

Context: Predicting software project effort from Use Case Points (UCP) method is increasingly used among researchers and practitioners. However, unlike other effort estimation domains, this area of interest has not been systematically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Mohammad Azzeh , Ali Bou Nassif , Imtinan Attili

Software development effort estimation (SDEE) generally involves leveraging the information about the effort spent in developing similar software in the past. Most organizations do not have access to sufficient and reliable forms of such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Ritu Kapur , Balwinder Sodhi

Obviously, the dynamism of software reliability research has speeded up significantly in the last period, and we can state the fact that its intensity is approaching, and in some cases is ahead of the information systems hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Anton Petrov , Elena Popova , Alexander Petrov

Accurately estimating the software size, cost, effort and schedule is probably the biggest challenge facing software developers today. It has major implications for the management of software development because both the overestimates and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Roheet Bhatnagar , Mrinal Kanti Ghose

For one to guarantee higher-quality software development processes, risk management is essential. Furthermore, risks are those that could negatively impact an organization's operations or a project's progress. The appropriate prioritisation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jinxin Xu , Yue Wang , Ruisi Li , Ziyue Wang , Qian Zhao

The ability to estimate task difficulty is critical for many real-world decisions such as setting appropriate goals for ourselves or appreciating others' accomplishments. Here we give a computational account of how humans judge the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ilker Yildirim , Basil Saeed , Grace Bennett-Pierre , Tobias Gerstenberg , Joshua Tenenbaum , Hyowon Gweon

Despite years of research for improving accuracy, software practitioners still face software estimation difficulties. Expert judgment has been the prevalent method used in industry, and researchers' focus on raising realism in estimates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Patricia Matsubara , Igor Steinmacher , Bruno Gadelha , Tayana Conte

Many methods have been proposed to estimate how much effort is required to build and maintain software. Much of that research assumes a ``classic'' waterfall-based approach rather than contemporary projects (where the developing process may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Tianpei Xia , Rui Shu , Xipeng Shen , Tim Menzies

Data is a cornerstone of empirical software engineering (ESE) research and practice. Data underpin numerous process and project management activities, including the estimation of development effort and the prediction of the likely location…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Michael F. Bosu , Stephen G. MacDonell

Accurate software effort estimation has been a challenge for many software practitioners and project managers. Underestimation leads to disruption in the projects estimated cost and delivery. On the other hand, overestimation causes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Ali Bou Nassif , Mohammad Azzeh , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Danny Ho

BACKGROUND: Software Process Improvement (SPI) is a systematic approach to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of a software development organization and to enhance software products. OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to identify and…