Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering metrics and models
An empirical validation of software cost estimation models
Communications of the ACM
Understanding and Controlling Software Costs
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Function Points in the Estimation and Evaluation of the Software Process
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Size Estimation of Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Reliability of function points measurement: a field experiment
Communications of the ACM
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Function Point Analysis: Difficulties and Improvements
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A timescale estimating model for rule-based systems
A timescale estimating model for rule-based systems
Comments on data analysis in software experiments
ACM SIGICE Bulletin
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
Robust estimation in software experiments
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Classification of research efforts in requirements engineering
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Towards an adaptation of the COCOMO cost model to the software measurement theory
ESEC '97/FSE-5 Proceedings of the 6th European SOFTWARE ENGINEERING conference held jointly with the 5th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Estimating Software Project Effort Using Analogies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Explaining the cost of European space and military projects
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
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
Software metrics for small database applications
SAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM symposium on Applied computing - Volume 2
A Validation of the Component-Based Method for Software Size Estimation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - special section on current trends in exception handling—part II
Software Cost Estimation with Incomplete Data
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Measuring Effort Estimation Uncertainty to Improve Client Confidence
Software Quality Control
A Causal Model for Software Cost Estimating Error
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Augmenting Object Persistency Paradigm for Faster Server Development
ADVIS '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Information Systems
An empirical study of maintenance and development estimation accuracy
Journal of Systems and Software
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
Project estimation using Screenflow Engineering
SEEP '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Engineering: Education and Practice (SE:EP '96)
A Procedure for Assessing the Influence of Problem Domain on Effort Estimation Consistency
Software Quality Control
Assessing Variation in Development Effort Consistency Using a Data Source with Missing Data
Software Quality Control
Class Point: An Approach for the Size Estimation of Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Comparing Uniform and Flexible Policies for Software Maintenance and Replacement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Comparison of Software Project Overruns-Flexible versus Sequential Development Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Applying statistical methodology to optimize and simplify software metric models with missing data
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Software cost estimation using economic production models
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
The adjusted analogy-based software effort estimation based on similarity distances
Journal of Systems and Software
Outlier elimination in construction of software metric models
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Software Effort, Quality, and Cycle Time: A Study of CMM Level 5 Projects
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Functionality: A Game Theoretic Analysis
Journal of Management Information Systems
Functional size measurement revisited
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
An empirical validation of a neural network model for software effort estimation
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Software development cost estimation using wavelet neural networks
Journal of Systems and Software
A neuro-fuzzy model for function point calibration
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
The high precision Man-Hours estimated technique in a system proposal phase
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Software project effort estimation with voting rules
Decision Support Systems
Updating weight values for function point counting
International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Why comparative effort prediction studies may be invalid
PROMISE '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Predictor Models in Software Engineering
Understanding developer and manager perceptions of function points and source lines of code
Journal of Systems and Software
Software testing sizing in incremental development: A case study
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Analysis of effort estimation based on software project models
ISCIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Communications and information technologies
Architecture analysis of enterprise systems modifiability - Models, analysis, and validation
Journal of Systems and Software
Component Point: A system-level size measure for Component-Based Software Systems
Journal of Systems and Software
An empirical validation of the suite of metrics for object-relational data modelling
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
Applying requirement based complexity for the estimation of software development and testing effort
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Identifying factors affecting software development cost and productivity
Software Quality Control
Using enterprise architecture analysis and interview data to estimate service response time
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
A novel fuzzy based approach for effort estimation in software development
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
A PSO-based model to increase the accuracy of software development effort estimation
Software Quality Control
Comparing functionality of software systems: An ontological approach
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Information and Software Technology
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This paper presents an assessment of several published statistical regression models that relate software development effort to software size measured in function points. The principal concern with published models has to do with the number of observations upon which the models were based and inattention to the assumptions inherent in regression analysis. The research describes appropriate statistical procedures in the context of a case study based on function point data for 104 software development projects and discusses limitations of the resulting model in estimating development effort. The paper also focuses on a problem with the current method for measuring function points that constrains the effective use of function points in regression models and suggests a modification to the approach that should enhance the accuracy of prediction models based on function points in the future.