Incremental Effort Prediction Models in Agile Development using Radial Basis Functions

One of the impediments to the wide dissemination of software estimation and measurement practices is the significant overhead imposed by these practices on the project and development team. Despite significant investment in research, the lightweight estimation of development effort is still an unsolved problem in software engineering. This study proposes a new, lightweight effort estimation model aimed at iterative development environments, as Agile Processes. The model is based on Radial Basis Functions. It is experimented in two semi-industrial projects carried out using a customized version of Extreme Programming (XP). The results are promising and evidence that the proposed model can be developed incrementally and from scratch for new projects without resorting itself to historic data.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SEKE
• Authors: Raimund Moser, Witold Pedrycz, Giancarlo Succi
• Keywords: Estimation, Lightweight Effort Estimation, Lightweight Estimation, SEKE 2007