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
An evaluation of effort estimation supported by change impact analysis in agile software development
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE,, DEU.
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE,, DEU.
Insiders Technologies GmBH, DEU.
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computing, Department of Software Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7266-5632
2019 (English)In: Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, ISSN 2047-7473, E-ISSN 2047-7481, Vol. 31, no 5, article id e2165Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In agile software development, functionality is added to the system in an incremental and iterative manner. Practitioners often rely on expert judgment to estimate the effort in this context. However, the impact of a change on the existing system can provide objective information to practitioners to arrive at an informed estimate. In this regard, we have developed a hybrid method, that utilizes change impact analysis information for improving effort estimation. We also developed an estimation model based on gradient boosted trees (GBT). In this study, we evaluate the performance and usefulness of our hybrid method with tool support and the GBT model in a live iteration at Insiders Technologies GmbH, a German software company. Additionally, the solution was also assessed for perceived usefulness and understandability in a study with graduate and post-graduate students. The results from the industrial evaluation show that the proposed method produces more accurate estimates than only expert-based or only model-based estimates. Furthermore, both students and practitioners perceived the usefulness and understandability of the method positively.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2019. Vol. 31, no 5, article id e2165
Keywords [en]
agile, case study, change impact analysis, effort estimation, expert-based
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-18019DOI: 10.1002/smr.2165ISI: 000468316500004OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-18019DiVA, id: diva2:1324746
Available from: 2019-06-14 Created: 2019-06-14 Last updated: 2020-04-30Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full text

Authority records

Ali, Nauman bin

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Ali, Nauman bin
By organisation
Department of Software Engineering
In the same journal
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
Software Engineering

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 463 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