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Simple software cost analysis: safe or unsafe?

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Tim Menzies,

Dan Port,

Zhihao Chen,

Jairus HihnAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 30, Issue 4

Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083170

Published: 15 May 2005 Publication History

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Delta estimation uses changes to old projects to estimate new projects. Delta estimation assumes that new costs can be extrapolated from old projects. In this study, we show that in certain real-world data sets. there exists attributes where this assumption does not hold. We define here an automatic method to find which attributes can be safely used for delta estimation.

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Simple software cost analysis: safe or unsafe?
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 30, Issue 4

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ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1082983

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