Providing a timely estimation of the likely software development effort has been the focus of intensive research investigations in the field of software engineering, especially software project management. As a result, various cost estimation techniques have been proposed and validated. Due to the nature of the software-engineering domain, software project attributes are often measured in terms...

One of the major highlights of cloud computing concerns the pay-as-you-go pricing model, where one pays according to the amount of resources consumed. Some cloud platforms already o er the pay-as-yougo model and this creates a new scenario in which the rational computing resource consumption gains in importance. In this paper, we address the impact of this new approach in software pricing and s...

Estimation models in software engineering are used to predict some important attributes of future entities such as software development effort, software reliability and programmers productivity. Among these models, those estimating software effort have motivated considerable research in recent years. The prediction procedure used by these software-effort models can be based on a mathematical fu...

There are various SDLC models widely accepted and employed for developing software. SDLC models give a theoretical guide line regarding development of the software. Employing proper SDLC allows the managers to regulate whole development strategy of the software. Each SDLC has its advantages and disadvantages making it suitable for use under specific condition and constraints for specified type ...

The software project similarity attribute has not yet been the subject of in-depth study, even though it is often used when estimating software development effort by analogy. Among the inadequacies identified (Shepperd et al.) in most of the proposed measures for the software project similarity attribute, the most critical is that they are used only when the software projects are described by n...