A New Way to Estimate the Size and Effort of Software for Expert User Programming
Keywords:
Software Effort Estimation, Expert User Programming, Software Size Measurement, Productivity Analysis, Effort PredictionAbstract
The software system development came in to existence around 60 years ago. Right from the start to until date the software engineering is continuously evolving the new techniques for developing fast, cheap and top quality software. During this paper, we've given an outline of existing size and effort estimates for software. Of these estimates are delineated a lot of or less on their own. Size & effort estimation could be a very talked-about task. Everything revolves around cost, schedule and quality. One such evolving field of software development is estimation models for software size and effort. Software size estimation is one among the most necessary inputs for software cost and effort estimation. Therefore improving the accuracy of software size estimation ultimately results in improving the accuracy of the software effort and cost estimates. These estimates are utilized in staffing, scheduling, planning, budgeting etc. however after we figure these estimates, solely high level project necessities are accessible to us. Using this high level data to provide correct software size estimates could be an extremely difficult task.
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