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Software Size Estimation in Incremental Software Development based on Improved Pairwise Comparison Matrices

by Peter Ochieng, Waweru Mwangi, Solomon Mwanjele Mwgha
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 93 - Number 5
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Peter Ochieng, Waweru Mwangi, Solomon Mwanjele Mwgha
10.5120/16213-5519

Peter Ochieng, Waweru Mwangi, Solomon Mwanjele Mwgha . Software Size Estimation in Incremental Software Development based on Improved Pairwise Comparison Matrices. International Journal of Computer Applications. 93, 5 ( May 2014), 29-39. DOI=10.5120/16213-5519

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author = { Peter Ochieng, Waweru Mwangi, Solomon Mwanjele Mwgha },
title = { Software Size Estimation in Incremental Software Development based on Improved Pairwise Comparison Matrices },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { May 2014 },
volume = { 93 },
number = { 5 },
month = { May },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 29-39 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume93/number5/16213-5519/ },
doi = { 10.5120/16213-5519 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%A Peter Ochieng
%A Waweru Mwangi
%A Solomon Mwanjele Mwgha
%T Software Size Estimation in Incremental Software Development based on Improved Pairwise Comparison Matrices
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 93
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%P 29-39
%D 2014
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Software sizing is a crucial activity among the task of software management. Work planning and subsequent estimation of effort required is based on the estimate of the software size required. Software developers are realizing the need to speed up the development process to respond to customers' needs . This has resulted in adoption of rapid development methods and adoption of agile methodologies. Incremental method of software development has been adopted as one of the methods to speed up software development. Unfortunately there is little work that has been done to develop a clear framework to estimate software size and cost in incremental software development environment. This research work proposes the use of Pairwise Comparison matrices framework to estimate size and cost in incremental software development and evaluate the pairwise comparison framework against Putman's size estimation model to determine if it produces more accurate results in terms of estimation of size relative to actual size.

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Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Pairwise judgment matrix Incremental Estimation

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