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Systematic Mapping Study of Dealing with Error in Software Development Effort Estimation

Abstract:

Over the last decades, the software engineeringcommunity has investigated new techniques for softwaredevelopment effort estimation. Unfortunately, the estimateswere not always accurate. Error approaches are then, aninteresting track for improving the projects runningperformances and their financial profitability. The aim of thissystematic mapping study is to summarize and synthesize theexisting studies dealing with effort estimation error anduncertainty and to classify them based on research approaches, contribution types, accuracy criteria, datasets, errorapproaches and effort estimation techniques used. In total 19papers published between 1990 and 2015 were selected. Weobserved a balance between the managerial approaches andthe technical ones. Furthermore, the proposed errortechniques and frameworks improve in general the accuracy ofeffort estimation techniques. Fuzzy logic, bootstrapping andrisk analysis are promising avenues that could be combinedwith various estimation techniques.