In the software engineering, estimation of the effort, time and cost required for the
development of software projects is an important issue. It is a very difficult task for project …

Context Software requirements are often not set in concrete at the start of a software
development project; and requirements changes become necessary and sometimes …

Although there has been substantial research in software analytics for effort estimation in
traditional software projects, little work has been done for estimation in agile projects …

At an early stage in the development process, a development team must obtain insight into
the software being developed to establish a reliable plan. Thus, the team members should …

Story point estimation is a task to estimate the overall effort required to fully implement a
product backlog item. Various estimation approaches (eg, Planning Poker, Analogy, and …

Abstract CONTEXT: Intelligent Software Engineering (ISE) refers to the application of
intelligent techniques to software engineering. We define an “intelligent technique” as a …

Software effort estimation is a significant part of software development and project
management. The accuracy of effort estimation and scheduling results determines whether a …

Early effort estimation is important for efficiently planning the use of resources in an
Information Technology (IT) project. However, limited research has been conducted on the …

It is inevitable for any successful IT industry not to estimate the effort, cost, and duration of
their projects. As evident by Standish group chaos manifesto that approx. 43% of the …

Frequent requirement changes are a major point of concern in today's scenario. As a
solution to such issues, agile software development (ASD) has efficiently replaced the …