Predicting Development Effort from User Stories

In this paper, we propose a method for predicting development effort based on user stories. Such approach is well suited for Agile software projects where requirements are developed along with the project and only sketched in a rough manner. We apply the proposed method to two industrial Agile softw...

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Published in2011 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement pp. 400 - 403
Main Authors Abrahamsson, P., Fronza, I., Moser, R., Vlasenko, J., Pedrycz, W.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2011
Subjects
agile methods
effort prediction
Software engineering
Software measurement
user stories
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Summary:In this paper, we propose a method for predicting development effort based on user stories. Such approach is well suited for Agile software projects where requirements are developed along with the project and only sketched in a rough manner. We apply the proposed method to two industrial Agile software projects of very different size and structure. We show that such effort estimation works reasonably well if user stories are written in a structured way.
ISBN:9781457722035
1457722038
ISSN:1949-3770
1949-3789
DOI:10.1109/ESEM.2011.58