Experiments with analogy-X for software cost estimation
Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review
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Detail(s)
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC |
Pages | 229-238 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
Conference
Title | 19th Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC 2008 |
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Place | Australia |
City | Perth, WA |
Period | 25 - 28 March 2008 |
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Abstract
We developed a novel method called Analogy-X to provide statistical inference procedures for analogybased software effort estimation. Analogy-X is a method to statistically evaluate the relationship between useful project features and target features such as effort to be estimated, which ensures the dataset used is relevant to the prediction problem, and project features are selected based on their statistical contribution to the target variables. We hypothesize that this method can be (1) easily applied to a much larger dataset, and (2) also it can be used for incorporating joint effort and duration estimation into analogy, which was not previously possible with conventional analogy estimation. To test these two hypotheses, we conducted two experiments using different datasets. Our results show that Analogy-X is able to deal with ultra large datasets effectively and provides useful statistics to assess the quality of the dataset. In addition, our results show that feature selection for duration estimation differs from feature selection for joint-effort duration estimation. We conclude Analogy-X allows users to assess the best procedure for estimating duration given their specific requirements and dataset. © 2008 IEEE.
Research Area(s)
- Analogy, Analogy-X, Case-based reasoning, Duration prediction, ISBSG, Mantel's correlation, Software effort prediction
Citation Format(s)
Experiments with analogy-X for software cost estimation. / Keung, Jacky; Kitchenham, Barbara.
Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC. 2008. p. 229-238 4483211.
Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC. 2008. p. 229-238 4483211.
Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review