Paper Info
Title
Size And Effort Estimation Based On Problem Domain Measures For Object-Oriented Software
Abstract
This paper analyzes the correlations between the problem domain measures such as the number of distinct nouns and distinct verbs in the requirements artifacts and the solution domain measures such as the number of software classes and methods in the corresponding object-oriented software. For this purpose, 14 completed software development projects of a CMMI Level-3 certified defense industry company have been analyzed. The observed strong correlation is taken as the indication of linear relationship between the measures and a size estimation model based on linear regression analysis is proposed. Prediction performance of the method is analyzed on the 14 software projects. Moreover, it has been observed that there is a high correlation between the problem domain measures and the development effort. Therefore, the linear regression analysis is also used to estimate the effort in terms of the problem domain measures. The effort estimations are also evaluated and compared with the efforts predicted using the size measured by the COSMIC Function Point (CFP) method. The results show that the proposed method provides more accurate effort estimates compared to the effort estimated by using CFP size measurement.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1142/S0218194018500079
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software engineering, size measurement, effort estimation
Data mining,Object-oriented programming,Problem domain,Computer science,Noun,Theoretical computer science,Software
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
2
0218-1940
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tülin Erçelebi Ayyildiz111.36
Altan Koçyigit2228.09