Not going to take this anymore: multi-objective overtime planning for software engineering projects

  • Authors:
  • Filomena Ferrucci;Mark Harman;Jian Ren;Federica Sarro

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Salerno, Italy;University College London, UK;University College London, UK;University of Salerno, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Software Engineering and development is well- known to suffer from unplanned overtime, which causes stress and illness in engineers and can lead to poor quality software with higher defects. In this paper, we introduce a multi-objective decision support approach to help balance project risks and duration against overtime, so that software engineers can better plan overtime. We evaluate our approach on 6 real world software projects, drawn from 3 organisations using 3 standard evaluation measures and 3 different approaches to risk assessment. Our results show that our approach was significantly better (p