Experimental Study Using Functional Size Measurement in Building Estimation Models for Software Project Size

Condori Fernandez, Nelly and Daneva, Maya and Buglione, Luigi and Ormandjieva, Olga (2010) Experimental Study Using Functional Size Measurement in Building Estimation Models for Software Project Size. In: Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2010, May 24-26, 2010, Montreal, Canada.

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Abstract:	This paper reports on an experiment that investigates the predictability of software project size from software product size. The predictability research problem is analyzed at the stage of early requirements by accounting the size of functional requirements as well as the size of non-functional requirements. The experiment was carried out with 55 graduate students in Computer Science from Concordia University in Canada. In the experiment, a functional size measure and a project size measure were used in building estimation models for sets of web application development projects. The results show that project size is predictable from product size. Further replications of the experiment are, however, planed to obtain more results to confirm or disconfirm our claim.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2010 IEEE
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Information Systems (IS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/75198
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SERA.2010.42
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