A Machine Learning Approach for Cost and Effort Estimation in Agile Development Process - Softcover

Manju, Vyas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1916706916 ISBN 13: 9781916706910

Publisher: RUBIOUS SHMS LTD, 2023

Synopsis

Software project management is a key area in the field of computer science as software 

now-a-days impacts every area related to human life. Managing software means the process for  

development and the maintenance of software must be completely controlled using various  

pre-defined set of rules. As the software development process has to follow various 

parameters and a well-defined life cycle to ultimately deliver all the requirements gathered from 

the customers hence it has become quite time consuming and expensive process. It is also an evident 

fact that failure  in  software  is  caused  mainly due  to  faulty practices  used  in  

 project management. Using the right and optimised practices for software management helps 

both client as well as developers. Because of all the factors the need for highly reliable  

software is increasing. The reliability of software is mainly dependent on two factors:  

the selection of proper model for development and the estimation of various parameters. 

During the last few decades, the former area has been a research interest for many researchers  

resulting in development of many reliability models. Hence, currently parameter estimation is 

 considered to be a primary activity in software reliability prediction and broadly the  

most important aspect of software project management. Software reliability models only become 

useful if they provide a correct and optimal estimation of various parameters.

A successfully completed project means that the project is developed within the planned budget and 

timeline which is mostly related to accurate effort and cost estimation whereas inaccurate  

estimation of effort and cost results in failure of a project in context of delivery  

time, cost and other parameters. Hence the most important parameters requiring accurate  

estimate in terms of software projects are effort and cost. The accuracy of the estimation of 

these two vital parameters depends on the correct estimation of size of the project to be 

developed, and the ability to convert the size estimate into man hours, duration and cost.

Edition details

• Publisher: RUBIOUS SHMS LTD
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1916706916
• ISBN 13: 9781916706910
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116