Web-Based Parametric Effort Estimation for Mobile Application Development

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Nur Ida Aniza Rusli¹  Nur Atiqah Sia Abdullah¹  Fatin Nabila Abd Razak²  Nemo Menton Mufriz¹ 

[1] Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA;Academy of Language Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA

关键词: software effort estimation;    parametric estimation;    mobile application;    estimation system;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2022082069

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Estimation methods are continuously being adapted to obtain better and clearer estimations needed to achieve development goals. Some estimation methods were invented before the modern mobile application technology that is currently available. Thus, these methods are unable to cater to the requirements for estimating modern mobile application features. The objective of this paper is to propose a web-based system as a method to estimate the effort and cost of developing a mobile application. The key idea behind this study is to identify cost drivers that can be applied in mobile application development through literature review. From the analysis, 19 cost drivers are found to fit the vision of this study. In addition, this study also seeks to investigate the price range of cost drivers acquired from existing similar systems. The total price range is accumulated, and the mean value of each cost driver is obtained, which is then inserted further into the new estimation metric. The proposed system is then evaluated by comparing the obtained results with six similar systems according to basic user needs requirements in an application. The results demonstrate that the proposed system is a more enhanced cost estimation software that contains more cost driver options, which users can utilize to estimate mobile application development costs.

【 授权许可】

CC BY