Software Effort Estimation (SEE) is one of the main activities in development of the software projects. Effort estimation in primary stages of development of the software is one of the important challenges the software projects manager faces. One of the common models of SEE is the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) model. In this model, the effort for development of the software projects is a fun...

Software development effort estimation is among one of the most challenging jobs that software developers need to perform. Due to the lack of information during the early stages of software development, the developers often express their inability to estimate accurately the effort, cost and schedule of the software under consideration. This inaccuracy in estimation leads to monetary losses as w...

The COnstructive COst MOdel, COCOMO, was developed to estimate the effort and cost to complete a software project. All business enterprises involved in developing software must know their costs to maintain their long-term viability. COCOMO measures the size of the project is lines of code. When the size of the project is measured in function points, COCOMO uses a function points to lines of cod...

Software Effort Prediction is the process of estimating the effort required to develop software. Effectively controlling the expensive investment of software development is achieved by accurately estimating the effort. Effort estimation at the early stage of software development is very difficult because of lot of uncertainty in input parameters which decides the software effort. Adaptive Neuro...

The Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) is one of the famous software cost estimation model developed by Barry W. Boehm. This model is used to estimate software costs, duration and maintenance efforts early in the development life cycle. COCOMO model has a simple function with two parameters to be estimated. Many techniques were used to estimate those parameters such as fine tuning and better pred...

The use of the neural networks to estimate software development effort has been viewed with skepticism by the majority of the cost estimation community. Although, neural networks have shown their strengths in solving complex problems, their shortcoming of being ‘black boxes’ has prevented them to be accepted as a common practice for cost estimation. In this paper, we study the interpretation of...

The rapid pace of change in software technology requires everybody in the software business to continually rethink and update their practices just to stay relevant and effective. This article discusses this challenge first with respect to the USC COCOMO II software cost modeling project, and then for softwareintensive organizations in general. It then presents a series of adaptive feedback loop...

Özet. Yazılım geliştirme maliyetleri, ölçüm ve kestirim yöntemlerinin çeşitli yetersizliklerinden dolayı sık sık kontrol dışına çıkmaktadır. Planlanan zaman ve bütçeyi aşan çok sayıda proje mevcuttur. Zaman, gereken çaba, dolayısıyla da bütçe tahminini başta doğru yapamamak, bunun en temel nedenlerinden biridir. Bu çalışma ile sektörde yaygın olarak kullanılan nesne yönelimli programlama diller...

Software cost estimation is a challenging and onerous task. Estimation by analogy is one of the expedient techniques in software effort estimation field. However, the methodology utilized for the estimation of software effort by analogy is not able to handle the categorical data in an explicit and precise manner. Early software estimation models are based on regression analysis or mathematical ...