Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences

, Volume 12, Issue 5, pp 927–931 | Cite as

Grey prediction based software stage-effort estimation

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Abstract

The software stage-effort estimation can be used to dynamically adjust software project schedule, further to help make the project finished on budget. This paper presents a grey model Verhulst based method for stage-effort estimation during software development process, a bias correction technology was used to improve the estimation accuracy. The proposed method was evaluated with a large-scale industrial software engineering database. The results are very encouraging and indicate the method has considerable potential.

Key words

project management software engineering sorftware effort estimation grey model 

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TP 311.5 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Computer ScienceXi’an Jiaotong UniversityXi’anChina

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