@inproceedings{80f13dfa9ea94e4ca9f2093b353bed1c,
title = "Towards an Early Software Effort Estimation Based on Functional and Non-Functional Requirements",
abstract = "The increased awareness of the non-functional requirements as a key to software project and product success makes explicit the need to include them in any software project effort estimation activity. However, the existing approaches to defining size-based effort relationships still pay insufficient attention to this need. This paper presents a flexible, yet systematic approach to the early requirements-based effort estimation, based on Non-Functional Requirements ontology. It complementarily uses one standard functional size measurement model and a linear regression technique. We report on a case study which illustrates the application of our solution approach in context and also helps evaluate our experiences in using it.",
keywords = "2025 OA procedure, COSMIC, SCS-Services, Effort estimation, Non-functional requirements, Ontology",
author = "Mohamed Kassab and Maya Daneva and Olga Ormandjieva",
year = "2009",
month = nov,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-05415-0_14",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-642-05414-3",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "182--196",
editor = "A. Abran and R. Braungarten and R. Dumke and J. Cuadrado-Gallego and J. Brunekreef",
booktitle = "Software Process and Product Measurement",
address = "Germany",
note = "International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement, IWSM-MENSURA, 2009 ; Conference date: 04-11-2009 Through 06-11-2009",
}