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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 Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Efi Papatheocharous , Harris Papadopoulos , Andreas S. Andreou

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

Software effort estimation models are typically developed based on an underlying assumption that all data points are equally relevant to the prediction of effort for future projects. The dynamic nature of several aspects of the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Michael Franklin Bosu , Stephen G. MacDonell , Peter A. Whigham

Data scientists often develop machine learning models to solve a variety of problems in the industry and academy but not without facing several challenges in terms of Model Development. The problems regarding Machine Learning Development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Giuliano Lorenzoni , Paulo Alencar , Nathalia Nascimento , Donald Cowan

Background: It is widely recognized that software effort estimation is a regression problem. Model Tree (MT) is one of the Machine Learning based regression techniques that is useful for software effort estimation, but as other machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Mohammad Azzeh

Accurate estimation of project costs and durations remains a pivotal challenge in software engineering, directly impacting budgeting and resource management. Traditional estimation techniques, although widely utilized, often fall short due…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Justin Carpenter , Chia-Ying Wu , Nasir U. Eisty

It is well recognized that the project productivity is a key driver in estimating software project effort from Use Case Point size metric at early software development stages. Although, there are few proposed models for predicting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Mohammad Azzeh , Ali Bou Nassif , Shadi Banitaan , Cuauhtemoc Lopez-Martin

Efficient issue assignment in software development relates to faster resolution time, resources optimization, and reduced development effort. To this end, numerous systems have been developed to automate issue assignment, including AI and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Athanasios Michailoudis , Themistoklis Diamantopoulos , Antonios Favvas , Andreas L. Symeonidis

Software effort estimation (SEE) is a core activity in all software processes and development lifecycles. A range of increasingly complex methods has been considered in the past 30 years for the prediction of effort, often with mixed and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Peter A. Whigham , Caitlin A. Owen , Stephen G. MacDonell

Over the last years, machine learning techniques have been applied to more and more application domains, including software engineering and, especially, software quality assurance. Important application domains have been, e.g., software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Safa Omri , Carsten Sinz

In this paper, we propose improvements in how estimation bias, e.g., the tendency towards under-estimating the effort, is measured. The proposed approach emphasizes the need to know what the estimates are meant to represent, i.e., the type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Magne Jørgensen

Software development effort estimation is considered a fundamental task for software development life cycle as well as for managing project cost, time and quality. Therefore, accurate estimation is a substantial factor in projects success…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Nazeeh Ghatasheh , Hossam Faris , Ibrahim Aljarah , Rizik M. H. Al-Sayyed

Machine Learning approaches are good in solving problems that have less information. In most cases, the software domain problems characterize as a process of learning that depend on the various circumstances and changes accordingly. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Saiqa Aleem , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

Background: Accurate effort estimation is crucial for planning in Agile iterative development. Agile estimation generally relies on consensus-based methods like planning poker, which require less time and information than other formal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jirat Pasuksmit , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Shanika Karunasekera

The advent of Artificial intelligence has promising advantages that can be utilized to transform the landscape of software project development. The Software process framework consists of activities that constantly require routine human…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Mariyam Mahboob , Mohammed Rayyan Uddin Ahmed , Zoiba Zia , Mariam Shakeel Ali , Ayman Khaleel Ahmed

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

According to a study of The Standish Group International, 44% of software projects cost more and last longer than expected. More accurate the effort estimation is; the better the enterprise gets organized and the more the software project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-09-03 S Laqrichi , Didier Gourc , François Marmier

Feature selection has been recently used in the area of software engineering for improving the accuracy and robustness of software cost models. The idea behind selecting the most informative subset of features from a pool of available cost…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Efi Papatheocharous , Harris Papadopoulos , Andreas S. Andreou

Purpose: The study aims to investigate the application of the data element market in software project management, focusing on improving effort estimation by addressing challenges faced by traditional methods. Design/methodology/approach:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Haoyang Chen , Botong Xu , Kaiyang Zhong

Software estimation is a crucial task in software engineering. Software estimation encompasses cost, effort, schedule, and size. The importance of software estimation becomes critical in the early stages of the software life cycle when the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Ali Bou Nassif , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Danny Ho