TY - GEN
T1 - Towards an early software effort estimation based on functional and non-functional requirements
AU - Kassab, Mohamed
AU - Daneva, Maya
AU - Ormandjieva, Olga
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The increased awareness of the non-functional requirements as a key to software project and product success makes explicit the need to include them in any software project effort estimation activity. However, the existing approaches to defining size-based effort relationships still pay insufficient attention to this need. This paper presents a flexible, yet systematic approach to the early requirements-based effort estimation, based on Non-Functional Requirements ontology. It complementarily uses one standard functional size measurement model and a linear regression technique. We report on a case study which illustrates the application of our solution approach in context and also helps evaluate our experiences in using it.
AB - The increased awareness of the non-functional requirements as a key to software project and product success makes explicit the need to include them in any software project effort estimation activity. However, the existing approaches to defining size-based effort relationships still pay insufficient attention to this need. This paper presents a flexible, yet systematic approach to the early requirements-based effort estimation, based on Non-Functional Requirements ontology. It complementarily uses one standard functional size measurement model and a linear regression technique. We report on a case study which illustrates the application of our solution approach in context and also helps evaluate our experiences in using it.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-05415-0_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-05415-0_14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650664039
SN - 3642054145
SN - 9783642054143
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 182
EP - 196
BT - Software Process and Product Measurement - International Conferences IWSM 2009 and Mensura 2009, Proceedings
T2 - 19th International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2009 and 3rd International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, Mensura 2009
Y2 - 4 November 2009 through 6 November 2009
ER -