Mohammad Saber Iraji; Homayun Motameni

Object Oriented Software Effort Estimate with Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy use Case Size Point(ANFUSP)

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Mohammad Saber Iraji ^1,* Homayun Motameni ²

1. Department of Computer science, Young Researchers Club sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, sari, Iran

2. Department of Computer engineering, Islamic Azad University, Sari Branch, Sari, Iran

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2012.06.02

Received: 5 Sep. 2011 / Revised: 3 Jan. 2012 / Accepted: 17 Mar. 2012 / Published: 8 Jun. 2012

Index Terms

Use case size point, effort, adaptive neuro fuzzy, object oriented effort

Abstract

Use case size point (USP) method has been proposed to estimate object oriented software development effort in early phase of software project and used in a lot of software organizations. Intuitively, USP is measured by counting the number of actors, preconditions, post conditions, scenarios included in use case models. In this paper have presented a Adaptive fuzzy Neural Network model to estimate the effort of object oriented software using Use Case size Point approach. In our proposed system adaptive neural network fuzzy use case size point has less error and system worked more accurate and appropriative than prior methods.

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Mohammad Saber Iraji, Homayun Motameni, "Object Oriented Software Effort Estimate with Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy use Case Size Point (ANFUSP)", International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications(IJISA), vol.4, no.6, pp.14-24, 2012. DOI:10.5815/ijisa.2012.06.02

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