Entropy-based Framework Dealing with Error in Software Development Effort Estimation

Salma El Koutbi, Ali Idri

2017

Abstract

Software engineering community often investigates the error concerning software development effort estimation as a part, and sometimes, as an improvement of an effort estimation technique. The aim of this paper is to propose an approach dealing with both model and attributes measurement error sources whatever the effort estimation technique used. To do that, we explore the concepts of entropy and fuzzy clustering to propose a new framework to cope with both error sources. The proposed framework has been evaluated with the COCOMO’81 dataset and the Fuzzy Analogy effort estimation technique. The results are promising since the actual confidence interval percentages are closer to those proposed by the framework.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

El Koutbi S. and Idri A. (2017). Entropy-based Framework Dealing with Error in Software Development Effort Estimation . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-250-9, pages 195-202. DOI: 10.5220/0006312901950202

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase17,
author={Salma El Koutbi and Ali Idri},
title={Entropy-based Framework Dealing with Error in Software Development Effort Estimation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2017},
pages={195-202},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006312901950202},
isbn={978-989-758-250-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Entropy-based Framework Dealing with Error in Software Development Effort Estimation
SN - 978-989-758-250-9
AU - El Koutbi S.
AU - Idri A.
PY - 2017
SP - 195
EP - 202
DO - 10.5220/0006312901950202