Effort Estimation Techniques - A Review

Authors(2) :-Monika, Amit Khatkar

Software Effort Estimation has always been an ongoing challenge to software engineers, as testing is one of most critical activities of SDLC. Now-a-days, accurate & reliable effort estimation is the need of software companies. There are various models and techniques used to estimate the software project effort. However, due to some factors or causes, they are unable to give accurate results. So, this paper act as torchbearer to various questions related to factors, importance of estimation, problem faced by estimation techniques, guidelines etc. of effort estimation. In this paper, we also summarized existing techniques that used for effort estimation.

Authors and Affiliations

Monika
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, GJ University Science & Engineering, Hisar, Haryana, India
Amit Khatkar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Panjab, India

Function Point Analysis (FPA), WBS, User Case Point (UCP), Wideband Delphi Technique, Three Point Estimation, Percentage of development effort method, Percentage distribution

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 3 | March-April 2018
Date of Publication : 2018-04-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 1730-1736
Manuscript Number : CSEIT1833677
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2456-3307

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Monika, Amit Khatkar, "Effort Estimation Techniques - A Review", International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp.1730-1736, March-April-2018. |          | BibTeX | RIS | CSV

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