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

fYear

2009

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

498

Lastpage

503

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCIS.2009.5291873

Filename

5291873