Estimating software costs
An assessment and comparison of common software cost estimation modeling techniques
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
A replicated assessment and comparison of common software cost modeling techniques
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
A Vector-Based Approach to Software Size Measurement and Effort Estimation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Engineering Project Management
Software Engineering Project Management
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
Benchmarking Software-Development Productivity
IEEE Software
An Empirical Study of Software Productivity
COMPSAC '01 Proceedings of the 25th International Computer Software and Applications Conference on Invigorating Software Development
Building A Software Cost Estimation Model Based On Categorical Data
METRICS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Software Metrics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Productivity Measurement Using Multiple Size Measures
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An Empirical Analysis of Software Productivity over Time
METRICS '05 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium
Selecting Best Practices for Effort Estimation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Functional size measurement revisited
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
How to Use COSMIC Functional Size in Effort Estimation Models?
IWSM/Metrikon/Mensura '08 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
What Are the Significant Cost Drivers for COSMIC Functional Size Based Effort Estimation?
IWSM '09 /Mensura '09 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
IWSM '09 /Mensura '09 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
Data quality in empirical software engineering: a targeted review
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Towards a simplified definition of Function Points
Information and Software Technology
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Software effort estimation is still a significant challenge for software management. Although Functional Size Measurement (FSM) methods have been standardized and have become widely used by the software organizations, the relationship between functional size and development effort still needs further investigation. Most of the studies focus on the project cost drivers and consider total software functional size as the primary input to estimation models. In this study, we investigate whether using the functional sizes of different functionality types, represented by the Base Functional Component (BFC) types; instead of using the total single size figure have a significant impact on estimation reliability. For the empirical study, we used the projects data in the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) Release 10 dataset, which were sized by the COSMIC FSM method.