In the area of software engineering a critical task is to accurately estimate the overall project costs for the completion of a new software project and efficiently allocate the resources throughout the project schedule. The numerous software cost estimation approaches proposed are closely related to cost modeling and recognize the increasing need for successful project management, planning and...

Practitioners have expressed concern over their inability to accurately estimate costs associated with software development. This concern has become even more pressing as costs associated with development continue to increase. As a result, considerable research attention is now directed at gaining a better understanding of the software-development process as well as constructing and evaluating ...

one of the most important and valuable goal of software development life cycle is software cost estimation or sce. during the recent years, sce has attracted the attention of researchers due to huge amount of software project requests. there have been proposed so many models using heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms to do machine learning process for sce. cocomo81 is one of the most popular...

Software cost estimation is known to be a challenging task at best, and these challenges are increased for programmers operating outside the support of an established team programming environment. While many software cost estimation models exist with varying levels of support, the nature of metrics collected for these models is seldom applicable to the solitary programmer. In addition, the work...

To date many software engineering cost models have been developed to predict the cost, schedule and quality of the software under development. But, the rapidly changing nature of software development has made it extremely difficult to develop empirical models that continue to yield high prediction accuracies. Software development costs continue to increase and practitioners continually express ...

Software estimation provides an important tool for project planning; whose quality and accuracy greatly affect the success of a project. There are several area of the software engineering in which we can use the function point analysis like project planning, project construction, software implementation etc. In software development, accuracy and efficiency of cost estimation methodology for a w...

The benefits of reviews are well-known in software quality assurance. Nevertheless, in industry they are often used in a truncated or shortened way, if at all. The costs are obvious and arise immediately, whereas the benefit of improved quality is hard to measure, and is achieved only in the long run. As decisions often focus on reducing development time and effort, we present an estimation mod...

Most software project estimation and measurement (PEM) processes have been designed for providers. Customers need to leverage PEM to better direct software sourcing. A design theory for software project-scoping has been developed that supports the PEM processes of both customers and providers. This paper probes the validity of the theory from providers’ and customers’ viewpoints through three l...