Software Estimation Models:When is Enough Data Enough?
Tim Menzies · 2004
While the comment comes from a definitive source, the COCOMO teams offers no evidence for the claim that data from 5 to 10 projects is enough. Curiously, the COCOMO team felt the need for 161 projects to generate COCOMO-II-2000. Perhaps there may be some drawback to tuning based on only 5 to 10 projects. To check this speculation, we conducted two studies using data from 62 COCOMO-I-1981 projects and 60 projects