Continual Resource Estimation for Evolving Software

  • Authors:
  • Juan F. Ramil

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A resource estimation approach, specifically orientedtowards long-lived software being actively evolved, isproposed and investigated. The approach seeks to becoherent with empirically grounded knowledge includingthe observation that the software progresses through aseries of stages during its lifetime and that a distinctivemodel characterises the economics of each individualstage. Instead of a single estimation model for the wholelifetime of the software, the approach calibrates modelsto each stage. Its feasibility was assessed in case studiesusing industrial data, yielding an accuracy (in magnitudeof relative error - MRE) between 20 and 33 percent.