Experimental Study Using Functional Size Measurement in Building Estimation Models for Software Project Size

Nelly Condori-Fernandez; Maia Daneva; Luigi Buglione; Olga Ormandjieva

doi:10.1109/SERA.2010.42

Experimental Study Using Functional Size Measurement in Building Estimation Models for Software Project Size

Nelly Condori-Fernandez, Maia Daneva, Luigi Buglione, Olga Ormandjieva

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Abstract

This paper reports on an experiment that investigates the predictability of software project size from software product size. The predictability research problem is analyzed at the stage of early requirements by accounting the size of functional requirements as well as the size of non-functional requirements. The experiment was carried out with 55 graduate students in Computer Science from Concordia University in Canada. In the experiment, a functional size measure and a project size measure were used in building estimation models for sets of web application development projects. The results show that project size is predictable from product size. Further replications of the experiment are, however, planed to obtain more results to confirm or disconfirm our claim.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2010)
Editors	O. Ormandjieva, C. Constantinides, A. Abran, R. Lee
Place of Publication	USA
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	276-282
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-0-7695-4075-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SERA.2010.42
Publication status	Published - 14 May 2010
Event	8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2010 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 24 May 2010 → 26 May 2010 Conference number: 8 http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~sera2010/

Publication series

Name
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society

Conference

Conference	8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2010
Abbreviated title	SERA
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	24/05/10 → 26/05/10
Internet address	http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~sera2010/

Keywords

METIS-276728
Functional Size Measurement
Experiment
EWI-19051
Empirical Software Engineering
Software project estimation
SCS-Services
IR-75198

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Condori-Fernandez, N., Daneva, M., Buglione, L., & Ormandjieva, O. (2010). Experimental Study Using Functional Size Measurement in Building Estimation Models for Software Project Size. In O. Ormandjieva, C. Constantinides, A. Abran, & R. Lee (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2010) (pp. 276-282). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/SERA.2010.42

Condori-Fernandez, Nelly ; Daneva, Maia ; Buglione, Luigi ; Ormandjieva, Olga. / Experimental Study Using Functional Size Measurement in Building Estimation Models for Software Project Size. Proceedings of the Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2010). editor / O. Ormandjieva ; C. Constantinides ; A. Abran ; R. Lee. USA : IEEE Computer Society, 2010. pp. 276-282

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Condori-Fernandez, N, Daneva, M, Buglione, L & Ormandjieva, O 2010, Experimental Study Using Functional Size Measurement in Building Estimation Models for Software Project Size. in O Ormandjieva, C Constantinides, A Abran & R Lee (eds), Proceedings of the Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2010). IEEE Computer Society, USA, pp. 276-282, 8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 24/05/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/SERA.2010.42

Experimental Study Using Functional Size Measurement in Building Estimation Models for Software Project Size. / Condori-Fernandez, Nelly; Daneva, Maia; Buglione, Luigi; Ormandjieva, Olga.

Proceedings of the Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2010). ed. / O. Ormandjieva; C. Constantinides; A. Abran; R. Lee. USA : IEEE Computer Society, 2010. p. 276-282.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Condori-Fernandez N, Daneva M, Buglione L, Ormandjieva O. Experimental Study Using Functional Size Measurement in Building Estimation Models for Software Project Size. In Ormandjieva O, Constantinides C, Abran A, Lee R, editors, Proceedings of the Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2010). USA: IEEE Computer Society. 2010. p. 276-282 https://doi.org/10.1109/SERA.2010.42