Title :
Domain specific phase by phase effort estimation in software projects
Author :
Kultur, Yigit ; Kocaguneli, Ekrem ; Bener, Ayse B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Bogazici Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract :
Software cost and effort estimation models mostly focus on predicting the overall project cost rather than the cost of phases separately. In addition to that, no previous research has a domain specific view on phase by phase effort estimation. In this research, domain specific data analysis is conducted to discover the difference in phase distribution profiles in different application domains. Furthermore, a regression model is built in order to see whether a domain specific approach provides improvement in effort estimation accuracy. Our experimental results showed when domain specific data and phase by phase approach is used the prediction accuracy increases up to 74%.
Keywords :
regression analysis; software engineering; domain specific data analysis; domain specific phase; phase distribution profiles; phase effort estimation; regression model; software cost; software projects; Accuracy; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Costs; Data analysis; Phase estimation; Predictive models; Resource management; Software algorithms; Testing; application domains; phase distribution; software cost estimation;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Information Sciences, 2009. ISCIS 2009. 24th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Guzelyurt
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5021-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5023-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISCIS.2009.5291873
