The Selection of Agile Development's Effort Estimation Factors Based on Principal Component Analysis

Abstract:

Software development managers could improve the quality of software products through controlling the development time and budget in software development process by using software effort estimation. But until now, there have not effective methods estimating effort for agile development. In this paper, the author extracts agile development data from thousands of projects data provided by ISBSG DATA Release 11, and analyze agile development data using the method of principal component analysis. Finally, the paper gets out the set of agile development factor affecting effort estimation.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 748)
• Pages: 1229-1234
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.748.1229
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Bo Cheng, Xue Jun Yu
• Keywords: Agile Development, Effort Estimation, Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

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