Experiences on Developer Participation and Effort Estimation

Software effort estimation is critical for resource allocation and planning. Accurate estimates enable managers to distribute the workload among resources in a balanced manner. The actual workload of developers may be different from the values observed in project management tools. In this research,...

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Published in2011 37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications pp. 419 - 422
Main Authors Kocaguneli, E., Misirli, A. T., Caglayan, B., Bener, A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2011
Subjects
churn
Companies
Data mining
developer participation
Estimation
Industries
Measurement
Planning
Software
software effort estimation
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Summary:Software effort estimation is critical for resource allocation and planning. Accurate estimates enable managers to distribute the workload among resources in a balanced manner. The actual workload of developers may be different from the values observed in project management tools. In this research, we provide a summary of our experiences regarding: a) effort estimation activities, b) the developer workload distribution through churn data and c) a method of using churn data to track estimation process. Our experience report depends on our collaborative work with our industry partners operating in various domains in Turkey. As a result, we observe that effort estimation is taken as an important topic. However, there is a large space for research to transfer the ad-hoc methods employed in industry to empirical ones. Interestingly, we observe that resource allocations based on initial estimates/plans do not conform to actual values. The common characteristic of developer contribution in different projects is: More than 80% of edits in code are performed by a small number of developers.
ISBN:1457710277
9781457710278
ISSN:1089-6503
2376-9505
DOI:10.1109/SEAA.2011.71