Article,
Software Effort Estimation Inspired by COCOMO and FP Models: A Fuzzy Logic Approach
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), (2013)
Abstract
Budgeting, bidding and planning of software
project effort, time and cost are essential elements of any software
development process. Massive size and complexity of now a
day produced software systems cause a substantial risk for
the development process. Inadequate and inefficient information
about the size and complexity results in an ambiguous estimates
that cause many losses. Project managers cannot adequately
provide good estimate for both the effort and time needed.
Thus, no clear release day to the market can be defined. This
paper presents two new models for software effort estimation
using fuzzy logic. One model is developed based on the famous
COnstructive COst Model (COCOMO) and utilizes the Source
Line Of Code (SLOC) as input variable to estimate the Effort (E);
while the second model utilize the Inputs, Outputs, Files, and User
Inquiries to estimate the Function Point (FP). The proposed fuzzy
models show better estimation capabilities compared to other
reported models in the literature and better assist the project
manager in computing the software required development effort.
The validation results are carried out using Albrecht data set.
