A Replicated Assessment of the Use of Adaptation Rules to Improve Web Cost Estimation

  • Authors:
  • Emilia Mendes;Nile Mosley;Steve Counsell

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ISESE '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Analogy-based estimation has, over the last 15 years,and particularly over the last 7 years, emerged as apromising approach with comparable accuracy to, orbetter than, algorithmic methods. In addition, it ispotentially easier to both understand and apply; thesetwo important factors can contribute to the successfuladoption of estimation methods within Web developmentCompanies We believe therefore, analogy-basedestimation should be examined further.This paper replicates previous work that investigatedthe use of two types of adaptation rules as a contributingfactor to better estimation accuracy. In addition, it alsoinvestigates the use of Feature Subset Selection, inaddition to Adaptation rules. Two datasets are used in theanalysis; results show that adaptation rules improvedestimation accuracy for the less "messy" dataset. FeatureSubset Selection also seems to help improve theadaptation results.