Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Are Size Measures Better than Expert Opinion? An Industrial Case Study on Requirements Volatility
Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap.
Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0639-4234
2007 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Expert judgment is a common estimation approach in industry. However, there is very little research on the accuracy of expert judgment outside the area of effort estimation. In this paper, we present an industrial case study investigating subjective and objective measures of requirements volatility. Data was collected in retrospect for all use cases of a medium-size software project. In addition, we determined subjective volatility by interviewing developers and managers of the project. Our data analysis show that structural measures perform better than expert judgment in estimating the total number of changes to use case based requirements. These results confirm results from a previous case study by the authors and suggest that project managers should not rely on expert judgment alone for decision making.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2007. p. 238-245
Keywords [en]
Software engineering
National Category
Computer Sciences Software Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-13440DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2007.28OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-13440DiVA, id: diva2:1046536
Conference
14th IEEE Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'07)
Available from: 2008-03-03 Created: 2016-11-14 Last updated: 2018-01-13Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full text

Authority records

Börstler, Jürgen

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Börstler, Jürgen
Computer SciencesSoftware Engineering

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 27 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf