Improved estimation of software development effort using Classical and Fuzzy Analogy ensembles

TitreImproved estimation of software development effort using Classical and Fuzzy Analogy ensembles
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsIdri, Aa, Hosni, Ma, Abran, Ab
JournalApplied Soft Computing Journal
Volume49
Pagination990-1019
Abstract

Delivering an accurate estimate of software development effort plays a decisive role in successful management of a software project. Therefore, several effort estimation techniques have been proposed including analogy based techniques. However, despite the large number of proposed techniques, none has outperformed the others in all circumstances and previous studies have recommended generating estimation from ensembles of various single techniques rather than using only one solo technique. Hence, this paper proposes two types of homogeneous ensembles based on single Classical Analogy or single Fuzzy Analogy for the first time. To evaluate this proposal, we conducted an empirical study with 100/60 variants of Classical/Fuzzy Analogy techniques respectively. These variants were assessed using standardized accuracy and effect size criteria over seven datasets. Thereafter, these variants were clustered using the Scott-Knott statistical test and ranked using four unbiased errors measures. Moreover, three linear combiners were used to combine the single estimates. The results show that there is no best single Classical/Fuzzy Analogy technique across all datasets, and the constructed ensembles (Classical/Fuzzy Analogy ensembles) are often ranked first and their performances are, in general, higher than the single techniques. Furthermore, Fuzzy Analogy ensembles achieve better performance than Classical Analogy ensembles and there is no best Classical/Fuzzy ensemble across all datasets and no evidence concerning the best combiner. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.

URLhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84997417515&doi=10.1016%2fj.asoc.2016.08.012&partnerID=40&md5=b29d5f00b8c137b8fef1ba5d0c2a68a1
DOI10.1016/j.asoc.2016.08.012
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