Neural network based effort estimation using class points for OO systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications, ICCTA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 261-265

  Kanmani, S ^a   Kathiravan, J ^a   Senthil Kumar, S ^a   Shanmugam, M ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Class points; Effort estimation; Neural networks; Object oriented systems; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLASS POINTS; DATA SET; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; OO SYSTEMS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 34547317218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCTA.2007.89     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (22)

1. J.-M. Aalto and A. Jaaksi, "Object-Oriented Development of Interactive Systems with OMT++," Proc. Conf. Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS 14), pp. 205-218, 1994.
2. A.J. Albrecht, "Measuring Application Development Productivity," Proc. Joint SHARE/GUIDE/IBM Application Development Symp., pp. 83-92, 1979.
3. G. Antoniol, C. Lokan, G. Caldiera, and R. Fiutem, "A Function Point-Like Measure for Object-Oriented Software," J. Empirical Software Eng., vol. 4, pp. 263-287, Sept. 1999.
4. B.W. Boehm, B. Clark, and E. Hiriwitz, "Cost Models for Future Life Cycle Processes: COCOMO 2. 0," Ann. Software Eng., vol. l, no. 1,pp. 1-24, 1995.
5. J.M. Carrol, Scenario-Based Design. John Wiley, 1995.
6. P. Coad and J. Nicola, Object-Oriented Programming. Prentice Hall, 1993.
7. G. Costagliola, F. Ferrucci, G. Tortora, and G. Vitiello, "Towards a Software Size Metrics for Object-Oriented Systems," Proc. AQUIS '98 Conf, pp. 121-126, 1998.
8. B. Henderson-Sellers, Object-Oriented Metrics: Measures of Complexity. Prentice-Hall, 1996.
9. Function Point Counting Practices Manual, Release 4.1.1, Int'l Function Point Users Group, 2001.
10. I. Jacobson, M. Christerson, P. Jonsson, and G. Overgaard, Object- Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach. Addison-Wesley, 1992.
11. J.A. Johnson, B.A. Nardi, C.L. Zarmer, and J.R. Miller, "ACE: Building Interactive Graphical Applications," Comm. ACM, vol. 36, pp. 41-55, Apr. 1993.
12. D. Kohlert, K. Rodham, and D. Olsen, "Implementing a Graphical Multi-User Interface Toolkit," Software-Practice and Experience, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 981-999, 1993.
13. G.E. Krasner and S.T. Pope, "A Cookbook for Using the Model- View-Controller User Interface Paradigm in Smaltalk-80," J. Object- Oriented Programming, vol. 1, pp. 26-49, May-June 1988.
14. M.A. Linton, J.M. Vlissides, and P.R. Calder, "Composing User Interfaces with Interviews," Computer, vol. 22, pp. 822, Feb. 1989.
15. A.F. Minkiewicz, "Measuring Object Oriented Software with Predictive Object Points," Proc. Conf. Applications in Software Measurements (ASM '97), 1997.
16. B.A. Myers and M.B. Rosson, "Survey on User Interface Programming," Proc. Conf. Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGGHI'92), pp. 195-202, 1992.
17. B.A. Myers, R.G. McDaniel, R.C. Miller, A.S. Ferrency, A. Faulring, B.D. Kyle, A. Mickish, A. Klimovitski, and P. Doane, "The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User Interface Software Development," IEEE Trans. Software Eng., vol. 23, pp. 347-365, June 1997.
18. G. R. Finnie, and G. E .Wittig, "A Comparison of Software Effort Estimation Techniques: Using Function Points with Neural Networks, Case-Based Reasoning and Regression Models", J. SYSTEMS SOFTWARE 1997.
19. G. Costagliola, F. Ferrucci, G. Tortora, and G. Vitiello, "Class Point: An Approach for the Size Estimation of Object-Oriented Systems," IEEE Computer Society, Jan 2005.
20. Howard Demuth and Mark Beale, Neuaral Network Tool Box Use with Matlab, the Math Work Inc., Jan 1998.
21. J. Verner and G. Tate, "A Software Size Model," IEEE Trans. Software Eng., vol. 18, pp. 265-278, Apr. 1992.
22. T. Fetcke, A. Abran, and T.-H. Nguyen, "Mapping the OOJacobson Approach into Function Point Analysis," Proc. IFPUG 1997 Spring Conf, pp. 134-142, 1997.