Effort distribution by phase or activity is an important but often overlooked aspect compared to other steps in the cost estimation process. Poor effort allocation is among the ma...
Ye Yang, Mei He, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, Barry W. B...
The quantitative analysis of software projects can provide insights that let us better understand open source and other software development projects. An important variable used in...
The estimation of effort and cost is still one of the hardest tasks in software project management. At the moment, there are many techniques to accomplish this task, such as Funct...
Software estimation models should support managerial decision making in software projects. We experience that most of current models do not achieve this goal to the extend manager...
Use case models are used in object-oriented analysis for capturing and describing the functional requirements of a system. Several methods for estimating software development effor...