This article presents a preliminary and exploratory study of the relationship between size, on the one hand, and effort, duration and team size, on the other, for 11 Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects with current size ranging between between 0.6 and 5.3 million lines of code (MLOC). Effort was operationalised based on the number of active committers per month. The extracted data ...

a successful software should be finalized with determined and predetermined cost and time. software is a production which its approximate cost is expert workforce and professionals. the most important and approximate software cost estimation (sce) is related to the trained workforce. creative nature of software projects and its abstract nature make extremely cost and time of projects difficult ...

The need for successful software projects has been a major area of discourse amongst researchers and software developers in academia and software industry respectively. Failure of software projects has been tied to flawed estimation at the early stages of software development life cycle. Recently, soft computing techniques such as Fuzzy logic models has been seen as an alternative to handle unc...

Software cost estimation is one of the most challenging tasks in software engineering. Over the past years the estimators have used parametric cost estimation models to establish software cost, however the challenges to accurate cost estimation keep evolving with the advancing technology. A detailed review of various cost estimation methods developed so far is presented in this paper. Planned e...

Successfully competing in the software development market requires controlling the quality of the product. This not only involves identifying what software attributes are valued by the target market, but also measuring and managing those attributes over the course of the software development cycle. This represents an emerging point of view in software engineering, as explicit considerations of ...

Budgeting, bidding and planning of software project effort, time and cost are essential elements of any software development process. Massive size and complexity of now a day produced software systems cause a substantial risk for the development process. Inadequate and inefficient information about the size and complexity results in an ambiguous estimates that cause many losses. Project manager...

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There is a good deal of anecdotal case-study evidence that organizations that have improved their SEI-CMM process maturity level have been able to reduce the amount of effort it takes them to produce a given software product. However, these case-study projects have concurrently realized other improvements in such areas as tool use, domain knowledge, component reuse, and office efficiency. As a ...

Data Mining is a research line that began in 1980 in order to find the knowledge that is hidden in the data that organizations are storing in a daily basis. This knowledge supports the decision-making processes in organizations. As a consequence companies of every kind have been developing data mining projects since the term appeared. However, there is no way to estimate this kind of projects. ...