A Comparative Evaluation of Effort Estimation Methods in the Software Life Cycle

Computer Science and Information Systems

Jovan Popović¹ 

[1] Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade,

关键词: software measurement;    effort estimation;    comparative analysis;    empirical evaluation;   

DOI  :  10.2298/CSIS110316068P

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Computer Science and Information Systems

【 摘 要 】

Even though there are a number of software size and effort measurement methods proposed in literature, they are not widely adopted in the practice. According to literature, only 30% of software companies use measurement, mostly as a method for additional validation. In order to determine whether the objective metric approach can give results of the same quality or better than the estimates relying on work breakd*own and expert judgment, we have validated several standard functional measurement and analysis methods (IFPUG, NESMA, Mark II, COSMIC, and use case points), on the selected set of small and medium size real-world web based projects at CMMI level 2. Evaluation performed in this paper provides objective justification and guidance for the use of a measurement-based estimation in these kinds of projects.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC-ND