Context: Predicting software project effort from Use Case Points (UCP) method is
increasingly used among researchers and practitioners. However, unlike other effort …

The size of a software project is a key measure of predicting software effort at the
requirements and analysis phase. Use case points (UCP) is among software size metrics …

Early software effort estimation is a hallmark of successful software project management.
Building a reliable effort estimation model usually requires historical data. Unfortunately …

Nowadays, software systems are a key factor in the success of many organizations as in
most cases they play a central role helping them attain a competitive advantage. However …

Global Software Development (GSD) projects comprise several critical cost drivers that affect
the overall project cost and budget overhead. Thus, there is a need to amplify the existing …

The prioritization of software requirements is necessary for successful software
development. A use case is a useful approach to represent and prioritize user-centric …

Global Software Development (GSD) is a well established field of software engineering with
the benefits of a global environment. Software Project Management (SPM) plays a key role …

The productivity factor has long been a key driver to estimate effort from Use Case Points
(UCP) size measure, especially when historical dataset is absent. But, no one questions …

Accurate software cost estimation in Global Software Development (GSD) remains
challenging due to reliance on historical data and expert judgments. Traditional models …

In modern society, machine learning techniques employed to predict Software Cost
Estimation viz. Decision Tree, K-Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machine, Neural …