A comparative study for estimating software development effort intervals

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 537-552

  Bakır, Ayşe ^a   Turhan, Burak ^b   Bener, Ayşe ^c  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Cluster analysis; Interval prediction; Machine learning; Software effort estimation

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; ESTIMATING SOFTWARE; INTERVAL PREDICTION; REGRESSION PROBLEM; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATIONS; SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION;

COST ESTIMATING;

EID: 79958253428     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-010-9112-9     Document Type: Article

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