A framework to support effort estimation on software maintenance and evolution activities
Marcos Alexandre Miguel, Marco Antônio Pereira Araújo, José David, Regina M. M. Braga · IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science · 2016
The emergence of agile methods in software development has brought many opportunities and challenges for researchers and professionals. A major challenge is the effort estimate for agile software development. When the estimation of effort is not well defined or is inaccurate, the results can directly reflect the software delivery, causing customer dissatisfaction or decrease the quality of the product, thus leading to the need for new mechanisms that can assist in this process. Given this need, this paper presents a framework, called GiveMe Effort to support the effort estimation activities in the maintenance and evolution of software in agile methods. The solution is based on historical data change requests associated with the maintenance and evolution of software.