Background: The relation between software effort and size has been modeled in literature as exponential, in the sense that the natural logarithm of effort is expressed as a linear...
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...
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...
: 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 ...