Estimation models based on functional profiles
Alain Abran, Bianca Gil, Eric A Lefebvre · 2004
A functional profile provides information about the distribution of functionality within specific software and permits comparison of its functional distribution with that of a sample of projects. This study investigates the impact of functional profiles on effort estimation models and compare results with estimation models based only on total functional size. The data set used in this study includes the projects from the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) repository that have had their functional size measured with COSMIC-FFP, the ISO 19761 standard.