International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science (IJITCS)
IJITCS Vol. 9, No. 5, 8 May 2017
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Software Effort Estimation Using Grey Relational Analysis
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Author(s)
M.Padmaja
1,*
D. Haritha
2
Index Terms
Estimation, Grey System Theory (GST), Grey Relational Analysis (GRA), COnstructive COst MOdel (COCOMO), Algorithmic models
Abstract
Software effort estimation is the process of predicting the number of persons required to build a software system. Effort estimation is calculated in terms of person per month for the completion of a project. If any new project is launched into a market or in industry, then cost and effort of a new project will be estimated. In this context, a number of models have been proposed to construct the effort and cost estimation. Accurate software effort estimation is a challenge within the software industry. In this paper we propose a novel method, Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) to estimate the effort of a particular project. To estimate the effort of a project, traditional methods have been used as algorithmic models to evaluate the parameters of the basic model i.e. basic COCOMO model. In this paper, to show the minimum error rate we have used Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) to predict the effort estimation on Kemerer dataset. When compared to the traditional techniques for estimation, the proposed method proved better results. The efficiency of the proposed system is illustrated through experimental results.
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M.Padmaja, D. Haritha, "Software Effort Estimation Using Grey Relational Analysis", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), Vol.9, No.5, pp.52-60, 2017. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2017.05.07
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