2016/12/04 by Ali Bou Nassif, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Nassif, Ali Bou +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #Software Engineering Research #Software Reliability and Analysis Research #Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1612.01078
openalex publication_date 2016/12/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Software estimation is a crucial task in software engineering. Software estimation encompasses cost, effort, schedule, and size. The importance of software estimation becomes critical in the early stages of the software life cycle when the details of software have not been revealed yet. Several commercial and non-commercial tools exist to estimate software in the early stages. Most software effort estimation methods require software size as one of the important metric inputs and consequently, software size estimation in the early stages becomes essential. One of the approaches that has been used for about two decades in the early size and effort estimation is called use case points. Use case points method relies on the use case diagram to estimate the size and effort of software projects. Although the use case points method has been widely used, it has some limitations that might adversely affect the accuracy of estimation. This paper presents some techniques using fuzzy logic and neural networks to improve the accuracy of the use case points method. Results showed that an improvement up to 22% can be obtained using the proposed approach.