期刊名称：International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering
印刷版ISSN：1975-0080
出版年度：2015
卷号：10
期号：2
页码：97-110
DOI：10.14257/ijmue.2015.10.2.09
出版社：SERSC
摘要：The number of standards and methods has been developed for software estimation in the last many decades. These methods help practitioners and engineers to estimate the effort accurately, but they found their inability to estimate software precisely. In this paper, an empirical approach is developed to measure the software development effort. The well-known PROMISE data sets of 217 projects are collected and the several performance factors are used in this paper to validate the estimated results. This work also considers the most popular model for software effort estimating, i.e. COCOMO. And the result of the COCOMO model and proposed an empirical approach is compared with the actual effort, and concludes that the proposed approach estimates the software development effort better than COCOMO in several aspects.
关键词：COCOMO; lines of code; function points; man-months; prediction PRED (N); ; mean relative error
