Feature subset selection can improve software cost estimation accuracy

  • Authors:
  • Zhihao Chen;Tim Menzies;Dan Port;Barry Boehm

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Southern California;Portland State Univ.;Univ. of Hawaii;Univ. of Southern California

  • Venue:
  • PROMISE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Predictor models in software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Cost estimation is important in software development for controlling and planning software risks and schedule. Good estimation models, such as COCOMO, can avoid insufficient resources being allocated to a project. In this study, we find that COCOMO's estimates can be improved via WRAPPER- a feature subset selection method developed by the data mining community. Using data sets from the PROMISE repository, we show WRAPPER significantly and dramatically improves COCOMO's predictive power.