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Quote: use analogy to estimate project effort: identify features, estimate effort from similar projects; outperforms algorithmic models such as COCOMO; use at least ten projects
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management of large software projects
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software metrics
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To date most work [on effort estimation] has focused upon … We describe an alternative approach to estimation based … (for example, the number of interfaces, the development … [Project] Similarity is defined as Euclidean distance in … all dimensions have equal weight. [We estimate the effort required for a new project by the effort required for similar projects.] The process … industrial datasets (a total of 275 projects) and … [as measured by MMRE] analogy outperforms algorithmic models based upon stepwise regression. … [p. 741, A new project should be compared with at least 10 existing projects.] Google-1 Google-2
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Topic: management of large software projects (63 items)
Topic: software metrics (32 items)