We set out to answer a question we were asked by software project management: how much effort remains to be spent on a specific software project and how will that effort be distri...
Background. Software defect prediction has been one of the central topics of software engineering. Predicted defect counts have been used mainly to assess software quality and est...
Thomas Schulz, Lukasz Radlinski, Thomas Gorges, Wo...
: Software practitioners recognise the importance of realistic estimates of effort for the successful management of software projects, the Web being no exception. Estimates are nec...
: The software capability maturity model has become a popular model for enhancing software development processes with the goal of developing high-quality software within budget and...
Numerous studies have used historical datasets to build and validate models for estimating software development effort. Very few used a chronological split (where projects’ end ...