This paper aims to provide a basis for the improvement of software-estimation research
through a systematic review of previous work. The review identifies 304 software cost …

Estimating software development effort remains a complex problem attracting considerable
research attention. Improving the estimation techniques available to project managers would …

Accurate project effort prediction is an important goal for the software engineering
community. To date most work has focused upon building algorithmic models of effort, for …

Software measurement, like measurement in any other discipline, must adhere to the
science of measurement if it is to gain widespread acceptance and validity. The observation …

Estimating the amount of effort required for developing an information system is an important
project management concern. In recent years, a number of studies have used neural …

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CONTEXT: The Use Case Points (UCP) method can be used to estimate software
development effort based on a use-case model and two sets of adjustment factors relating to …

Use case models are used in object-oriented analysis for capturing and describing the
functional requirements of a system. Several methods for estimating software development …

In this paper, we present an FP-like approach, named class point, which was conceived to
estimate the size of object-oriented products. In particular, two measures are proposed …

Software metrics should support managerial decision making in software projects. We
explain how traditional metrics approaches, such as regression-based models for cost …