Software Development Effort Estimation Using Fuzzy Logic: A Review

Accurate effort prediction is an ongoing challenge to software engineers. It is an important task in the management of software projects. Effort estimation is the challenging and is an important area in the software project management research field. The development of software has always been characterized by the parameters that contain certain level of fuzziness. This requires some degree of uncertainty be introduced in the models, to make the model reliable. Fuzzy Logic techniques are used to tackle the uncertainty issues. Fuzzy Logics could produce better estimates provided that various parameters and factors pertaining to fuzzy logic are carefully set. The primary purpose of this paper is to estimate the software development effort using Fuzzy Logic Techniques in order to improve accuracies.