Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering metrics and models
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Softw
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Softw
Software cost estimating: craft or witchcraft
ACM SIGMIS Database
An Ada-based software engineering course
SIGCSE '89 Proceedings of the twentieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Using spreadsheet software to support metric's life cycle activities
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Lessons learned from modeling the dynamics of software development
Communications of the ACM
Scale Economies in New Software Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A model for measuring information system size
MIS Quarterly
The validation of a political model of information systems development cost estimating
SIGCPR '91 Proceedings of the 1991 conference on SIGCPR
Reuse and productivity in integrated computer-aided software engineering: an empirical study
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on the strategic use of information systems
The validation of a political model of information systems development cost estimating
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
Nine management guidelines for better cost estimating
Communications of the ACM
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Effort Models for Early Estimation of Process Control Applications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Pattern Recognition Approach for Software Engineering Data Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software measurement principles, techniques, and environments
Improving the Reliability of Function Point Measurement: An Empirical Study
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software measurement principles, techniques, and environments
Reliability of function points measurement: a field experiment
Communications of the ACM
Five principles for the formal validation of models of software metrics
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Software metrics and measurement principles
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Machine Learning Approaches to Estimating Software Development Effort
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Perceptual congruence and information systems cost estimating
SIGCPR '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGCPR conference on Supporting teams, groups, and learning inside and outside the IS function reinventing IS
Third and fourth generation language productivity differences
Communications of the ACM
Effort estimation using analogy
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
An Economic Model to Estimate Software Rewriting and Replacement Times
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Function Points Analysis: An Empirical Study of Its Measurement Processes
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Evaluating Alternative Software Production Functions
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Estimating Software Project Effort Using Analogies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
COBRA: a hybrid method for software cost estimation, benchmarking, and risk assessment
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Explaining the cost of European space and military projects
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
An assessment and comparison of common software cost estimation modeling techniques
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Issues in calibrating effort estimation models
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Metrics in the software engineering curriculum
Annals of Software Engineering - Special issue on software engineering education
A probabilistic model for software projects
ESEC/FSE-7 Proceedings of the 7th European software engineering conference held jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Bayesian Analysis of Empirical Software Engineering Cost Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A cost and performance model for Web service investment
Communications of the ACM
Software metrics for small database applications
SAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM symposium on Applied computing - Volume 2
Validation of an Approach for Improving Existing Measurement Frameworks
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Empirical Data Modeling in Software Engineering Using Radial Basis Functions
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An activity based costing approach to systems development and implementation
ICIS '98 Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Defining and Applying Measures of Distance Between Specifications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Cost Estimation with Incomplete Data
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special section on the seventh international software metrics symposium
A comparison of case-based reasoning approaches
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
A Rule-Based Approach to Developing Software Development Prediction Models
Automated Software Engineering
An Empirical Study of Analogy-based Software Effort Estimation
Empirical Software Engineering
Estimating Maintenance Effort by Analogy
Empirical Software Engineering
On Building Prediction Systems for Software Engineers
Empirical Software Engineering
A Model of Estimation and Optimization of Expenditures in Multilevel Fuzzy Environments
Programming and Computing Software
Measuring Effort Estimation Uncertainty to Improve Client Confidence
Software Quality Control
Counterpoint: The Problem with Function Points
IEEE Software
A Comparison of Function Point Counting Techniques
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Development Cost Estimation Using Function Points
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Causal Model for Software Cost Estimating Error
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Estimation and Prediction Metrics for Adaptive Maintenance Effort of Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The Personal Software Process in Practice: Experience in Two Cases over Five Years
ECSQ '02 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Quality
Issues on the Effective Use of CBR Technology for Software Project Prediction
ICCBR '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning: Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development
Packaging Predictable Assembly
CD '02 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM Working Conference on Component Deployment
An empirical study of maintenance and development estimation accuracy
Journal of Systems and Software
Cost estimation for web applications
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
IT measurement
Sizing and Estimating the Coding and Unit Testing Effort for GUI Systems
METRICS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Software Metrics: From Measurement to Empirical Results
AI Tools for Software Development Effort Estimation
SEEP '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Engineering: Education and Practice (SE:EP '96)
Project estimation using Screenflow Engineering
SEEP '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Engineering: Education and Practice (SE:EP '96)
A Metric Framework for the Assessment of Object-Oriented systems
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
Software Renewal Process Comprehension Using Dynamic Effort Estimation
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on: Component-based software engineering
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Hypermedia and the world wide web
Do adaptation rules improve web cost estimation?
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
A Procedure for Assessing the Influence of Problem Domain on Effort Estimation Consistency
Software Quality Control
Estimating the development cost of custom software
Information and Management
A Simulation Study of the Model Evaluation Criterion MMRE
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Continuous Productivity Assessment and Effort Prediction Based on Bayesian Analysis
COMPSAC '04 Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Volume 01
The Impact of Project Planning Team Experience on Software Project Cost Estimates
Empirical Software Engineering
Preliminary Data Analysis Methods in Software Estimation
Software Quality Control
Class Point: An Approach for the Size Estimation of Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Effort estimation of use cases for incremental large-scale software development
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Validation methods for calibrating software effort models
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Anchoring and adjustment in software estimation
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
An analysis of data sets used to train and validate cost prediction systems
PROMISE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Predictor models in software engineering
Finding the Right Data for Software Cost Modeling
IEEE Software
Optimal Project Feature Weights in Analogy-Based Cost Estimation: Improvement and Limitations
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Development of a hybrid cost estimation model in an iterative manner
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
A comparative study of attribute weighting heuristics for effort estimation by analogy
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
Cross-company and single-company effort models using the ISBSG database: a further replicated study
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
An empirical study of using rule induction and rough sets to software cost estimation
Fundamenta Informaticae - Special issue on theory and applications of soft computing (TASC04)
Software cost estimation using economic production models
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
A flexible method for software effort estimation by analogy
Empirical Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Designing a Family of Development-Intensive Products
Management Science
Selecting Best Practices for Effort Estimation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software project economics: a roadmap
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
Software Effort, Quality, and Cycle Time: A Study of CMM Level 5 Projects
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Cross versus Within-Company Cost Estimation Studies: A Systematic Review
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Factors affecting duration and effort estimation errors in software development projects
Information and Software Technology
Decision Support Analysis for Software Effort Estimation by Analogy
PROMISE '07 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Predictor Models in Software Engineering
Column Pruning Beats Stratification in Effort Estimation
PROMISE '07 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Predictor Models in Software Engineering
Software Functionality: A Game Theoretic Analysis
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Cross-company vs. single-company web effort models using the Tukutuku database: An extended study
Journal of Systems and Software
Design steps for developing software measurement standard etalons for ISO 19761 (COSMIC-FFP)
ICCOMP'07 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS International Conference on Computers
IP telephony in the enterprise network: comparing operating costs of PSTN and IP network
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Exploring case-based reasoning for web hypermedia project cost estimation
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
Multi-criteria decision analysis for customization of estimation by analogy method AQUA+
Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Predictor models in software engineering
A comparative evaluation on the accuracies of software effort estimates from clustered data
Information and Software Technology
Information and Software Technology
Evaluation of preliminary data analysis framework in software cost estimation based on ISBSG R9 Data
Software Quality Control
Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering - Selected papers from the International Conference on Computer Science,Software Engineering, Information Technology, e-Business, and Applications, 2003
Software development cost estimation using wavelet neural networks
Journal of Systems and Software
A constrained regression technique for cocomo calibration
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Reducing biases in individual software effort estimations: a combining approach
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
ENNA: software effort estimation using ensemble of neural networks with associative memory
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
A neuro-fuzzy model for function point calibration
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
First Steps towards Validating a Cost-Benefit Model of Reviews and Tests
IWSM/Metrikon/Mensura '08 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
Web Cost Estimation and Productivity Benchmarking
Software Engineering
Updating weight values for function point counting
International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Applying fuzzy neural network to estimate software development effort
Applied Intelligence
Feature weighting heuristics for analogy-based effort estimation models
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
ONTOCOM Revisited: Towards Accurate Cost Predictions for Ontology Development Projects
ESWC 2009 Heraklion Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
Understanding developer and manager perceptions of function points and source lines of code
Journal of Systems and Software
Time as symbolic currency in knowledge work
Information and Organization
Quantifying IT forecast quality
Science of Computer Programming
Software cost estimation using fuzzy logic
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Fuzzy grey relational analysis for software effort estimation
Empirical Software Engineering
Using genetic programming to improve software effort estimation based on general data sets
GECCO'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation: PartII
RSFDGrC'03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Rough sets, fuzzy sets, data mining, and granular computing
Accurate estimates without calibration?
ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
Analysis of effort estimation based on software project models
ISCIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Communications and information technologies
Evaluating logistic regression models to estimate software project outcomes
Information and Software Technology
Validating a size measure for effort estimation in model-driven Web development
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Stable rankings for different effort models
Automated Software Engineering
Information and Software Technology
Component Point: A system-level size measure for Component-Based Software Systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Functional networks as a novel data mining paradigm in forecasting software development efforts
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation
A shift-invariant morphological system for software development cost estimation
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Comparison of weighted grey relational analysis for software effort estimation
Software Quality Control
Predicting software project effort: A grey relational analysis based method
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Software project effort assessment
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Advances in Software Engineering - Special issue on new generation of software metrics
A revised web objects method to estimate web application development effort
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Systematic literature review of machine learning based software development effort estimation models
Information and Software Technology
Quantifying forecast quality of IT business value
Science of Computer Programming
A replicated assessment and comparison of adaptation techniques for analogy-based effort estimation
Empirical Software Engineering
ONTOCOM: a cost estimation model for ontology engineering
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
Genetically optimized hybrid fuzzy neural networks in modeling software data
MDAI'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence
A multi-stage fuzzy-grey approach to analyzing software development cost
KES'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part IV
A systematic review of cross- vs. within- company cost estimation studies
EASE'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
An evaluation of function point counting based on measurement-oriented models
EASE'08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Relation-based neurofuzzy networks with evolutionary data granulation
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
Journal of Systems and Software
Size doesn't matter?: on the value of software size features for effort estimation
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
A simulation model for strategic management process of software projects
Journal of Systems and Software
ONTOCOM: A reliable cost estimation method for ontology development projects
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Experiments in parallel matrix multiplication on multi-core systems
ICA3PP'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing - Volume Part I
Functional Link Artificial Neural Networks for Software Cost Estimation
International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation
Perceptual Congruence and Systems Development Cost Estimation
Information Resources Management Journal
Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
Software effort models should be assessed via leave-one-out validation
Journal of Systems and Software
Diversity in software engineering research
Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
Software development cost estimation using similarity difference between software attributes
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication
Finding conclusion stability for selecting the best effort predictor in software effort estimation
Automated Software Engineering
Information and Software Technology
IMPROVING THE PREDICTION ACCURACY OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COST MODELS
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
Information and Software Technology
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Practitioners have expressed concern over their inability to accurately estimate costs associated with software development. This concern has become even more pressing as costs associated with development continue to increase. As a result, considerable research attention is now directed at gaining a better understanding of the software-development process as well as constructing and evaluating software cost estimating tools. This paper evaluates four of the most popular algorithmic models used to estimate software costs (SLIM, COCOMO, Function Points, and ESTIMACS). Data on 15 large completed business data-processing projects were collected and used to test the accuracy of the models' ex post effort estimation. One important result was that Albrecht's Function Points effort estimation model was validated by the independent data provided in this study [3]. The models not developed in business data-processing environments showed significant need for calibration. As models of the software-development process, all of the models tested failed to sufficiently reflect the underlying factors affecting productivity. Further research will be required to develop understanding in this area.