Effort Estimation is process of estimating the development effort of web application. A cornerstone of Web project management is sound resource estimation. Resources are factors, such as cost, effort, quality, problem size, that have bearing on a project’s outcome. Unfortunately, most Web development projects suffer from unrealistic project schedules, leading to applications that are rarely dev...

Agile Software development has become famous in industries and replacing the traditional methods of software development. A correct estimation of effort in this concept still remains an argument in industries. Thus, the industry must be able to estimate the effort necessary for software development using agile methodology. For estimating effort different types of neural-networks Probabilistic N...

A good understanding of the influential factors to software development effort and further precise effort estimate are undoubtedly crucial to any cost-effective and controllable software development projects. In most effort estimation researches, a large dataset is always a necessary basis of estimation modeling, model calibration and method validation. Among them, different attributes and char...

One of the greatest challenges for software developers is forecasting the development effort for a software system for the last decades. The capability to provide a good estimation on software development efforts is necessitated by the project managers. Software effort estimation models divided into two main categories: algorithmic and nonalgorithmic. These models too have difficulty in modelli...

Software cost estimation (SCE) remains a complex problem, which continues to attract considerable research at an early stage in the software development process. Researchers have attempted different approaches. Lately, models based on artificial intelligence techniques have been developed. Case base reasoning (CBR) has emerged recently as a promising approach, with comparable accuracy and it is...

Introduction Traditional software development is characterized by the structured programming paradigm introduced in the late 60’s and early 70’s. This paradigm relies on top-down functional decomposition to derive software modules. The structured programming paradigm provides a monolithic view of the software development process. Traditional software effort estimation models capture this monoli...

Accurately estimating the cost of software development is crucial for effective project planning and resource allocation. However, traditional estimation methods rely heavily on expert judgment historical data, which can be time consuming prone to errors. This study suggests a learning-based model that leverages relational databases improve accuracy. The proposed approach estimates based effort...