2017/03/13 by Mohammad Azzeh, Azzeh, Mohammad, Peter Cowling +3
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #Software Engineering Research #Software Engineering Techniques and Practices #Software Reliability and Analysis Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1703.04539
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Relaying on early effort estimation to predict the required number of\nresources is not often sufficient, and could lead to under or over estimation.\nIt is widely acknowledge that that software development process should be\nrefined regularly and that software prediction made at early stage of software\ndevelopment is yet kind of guesses. Even good predictions are not sufficient\nwith inherent uncertainty and risks. The stage-effort estimation allows project\nmanager to re-allocate correct number of resources, re-schedule project and\ncontrol project progress to finish on time and within budget. In this paper we\npropose an approach to utilize prior effort records to predict stage effort.\nThe proposed model combines concepts of Fuzzy set theory and association rule\nmining. The results were good in terms of prediction accuracy and have\npotential to deliver good stage-effort estimation.\n