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Error correction in function point estimation using soft computing technique

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K. Koteswara Rao,

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ACAI '11: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing and Artificial Intelligence

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2007052.2007092

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Project manager is responsible to see the company does not suffer from time overruns and cost overruns, unfortunately accurate forecast of effort estimations stems from mature organizations only, others owing to lack of history databases, when we estimating the total functionality of the project there is a need to form the total complexity matrix for the data and transactional points, at certain point with the increase of one RET and DET the final resulting measurement will not correspond to a sufficiently accurate function point value, for this purpose we are adopting soft computing technique. This work proposes the use of concepts and properties from fuzzy set theory to extend FPA to FFPA (Fuzzy Function Point Analysis). Fuzzy theory seeks to build a formal quantitative structure capable of emulating the imprecision of human knowledge. With the function points generated by FFPA, we can observe the error correction in Function Point Estimation so derived values such as costs and terms of development can be more precisely determined.

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Van Hai VLe Thi Kim Nhung HHoc H(2019)A Review of Software Effort Estimation by Using Functional Points AnalysisComputational Statistics and Mathematical Modeling Methods in Intelligent Systems10.1007/978-3-030-31362-3_40(408-422)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31362-3_40
de Freitas Junior MFantinato MSun V(2015)Improvements to the Function Point Analysis Method: A Systematic Literature ReviewIEEE Transactions on Engineering Management10.1109/TEM.2015.245335462:4(495-506)Online publication date: Nov-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2015.2453354

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Error correction in function point estimation using soft computing technique
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Metrics
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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ACAI '11: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing and Artificial Intelligence

July 2011

248 pages

ISBN:9781450306355

DOI:10.1145/2007052

Conference Chair:
Archana Mantri
Chitkara University, Punjab
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Meenu Khurana
Chitkara University, Punjab

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Van Hai VLe Thi Kim Nhung HHoc H(2019)A Review of Software Effort Estimation by Using Functional Points AnalysisComputational Statistics and Mathematical Modeling Methods in Intelligent Systems10.1007/978-3-030-31362-3_40(408-422)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31362-3_40
de Freitas Junior MFantinato MSun V(2015)Improvements to the Function Point Analysis Method: A Systematic Literature ReviewIEEE Transactions on Engineering Management10.1109/TEM.2015.245335462:4(495-506)Online publication date: Nov-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2015.2453354

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