Title
ANN model for predicting software function point metric
Abstract
Software Engineering measurement and analysis specially, size estimation initiatives have been in the center of attention for many firms. Function Point (FP) metric is among the most commonly used techniques to estimate the size of software system projects or software systems for measuring the functionality delivered by a system. In this paper we explore an alternative, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach for predicting function Point. We proposed an ANN model to explore neural network as tool for function point metric. A multilayer feed forward network is trained using backpropogation algorithm and demonstrated to be suitable. The training and validation data is randomly selected from the data repository of 365 projects [7]. The experimental results of two validation sets each of 55 projects indicate that the Mean Absolute Relative Error (MARE) was 0.198 and 0.145 of ANN model and shows that ANN model is a competitive model as Function Point Metric.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1457516.1460352
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Keywords
Field
DocType
software system,function point metric,neural network,feed forward backpropogation,data repository,ann model,mean absolute relative error,size estimation initiative,validation data,artificial neural network,function point,software function point metric,competitive model,software system project,feed forward,relative error,software engineering,software systems
Data mining,Feed forward network,Computer science,Mean absolute relative error,Function point,Software system,Software,Information repository,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
34
1
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yogesh Singh180.44
Pradeep Kumar Bhatia2726.00
Omprakash Sangwan3322.12