Software practitioners recognise the importance of realistic estimates of effort for the successful management of software projects, the Web being no exception. Estimates are necessary throughout the whole development life cycle. They are fundamental when bidding for a contract or when determining a project’s feasibility in terms of cost-benefit analysis. In addition, they allow project manager...

0164-1212/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jss.2008.06.001 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +65 83442816. E-mail address: [email protected] (Y.F. Li). A number of software cost estimation methods have been presented in literature over the past decades. Analogy based estimation (ABE), which is essentially a case based reasoning (CBR) approach, is one of the most popular techni...

This work presents an experimental study of an idea related to the automatic generation of performance and stress testing by reusing functional testing. The idea was implemented in a tool named FERRARE GT. This tool is able to generate both test scripts as well as the data required for their execution. In this study we verified that the use of the method can generate benefits related to cost re...

Reliable effort estimation remains an ongoing challenge to software engineers. Accurate effort estimation is the state of art of software engineering, effort estimation of software is the preliminary phase between the client and the business enterprise. The relationship between the client and the business enterprise begins with the estimation of the software. The credibility of the client to th...

The construction of software cost estimation models remains an active topic of research. The basic premise of cost modelling is that a historical database of software project cost data can be used to develop a quantitative model to predict the cost of future projects. One of the difficulties faced by workers in this area is that many of these historical databases contain substantial amounts of ...