Title: Development of software effort estimation using a non-fuzzy model

Authors: H. Parthasarathi Patra; Kumar Rajnish

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India ' Department of Computer Science, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

Abstract: Nowadays, accurate estimation of the software effort is a challenging issue for the modern software developers. To bind a contract depends purely on the estimated cost of the software. Overestimation or underestimation leads to a loss or gain of the software project and also increases the probability of success and failure of the project. In this paper we used a non fuzzy conditional algorithm to build a suitable model to estimate the software effort taking NASA software projects data. We have planned to set of linear conditional models using the domain of possible kilo lines of code (KLOC). The performance of the developed model has been analysed using NASA data set (Bailey and Basili, 1981) and we compare with the result of COCOMO tuned-PSO, Halstead, Walston-Felix, Bailey-Basili and Doty models were provided.

Keywords: lines of code; software cost estimation; magnitude of relative error; MRE; MMRE; PRED.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSYSE.2018.090636

International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering, 2018 Vol.4 No.1, pp.17 - 22

Received: 03 Jan 2017
Accepted: 21 May 2017
Published online: 25 Mar 2018 *

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