2011/12/16 by S. Malathi, S. Sridhar, Malathi, S. +2 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #Software Engineering Research #Software Engineering Techniques and Practices #Software Reliability and Analysis Research #cs.SE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1112.3877
5 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables
arxiv created 2011/12/16 · openalex publication_date 2011/12/16 · arxiv updated 2011/12/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Software Cost Estimation with resounding reliability,productivity and development effort is a challenging and onerous task. This has incited the software community to give much needed thrust and delve into extensive research in software effort estimation for evolving sophisticated methods. Estimation by analogy is one of the expedient techniques in software effort estimation field. However, the methodology utilized for the estimation of software effort by analogy is not able to handle the categorical data in an explicit and precise manner. A new approach has been developed in this paper to estimate software effort for projects represented by categorical or numerical data using reasoning by analogy and fuzzy approach. The existing historical data sets, analyzed with fuzzy logic, produce accurate results in comparison to the data set analyzed with the earlier methodologies.