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Making Sense Of Software Development And Personality Types, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed Dr.

Luiz Fernando Capretz

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Software Project Risk Assessment And Effort Contingency Model Based On Cost Factors, Luiz Fernando Capretz

Luiz Fernando Capretz

In the early stages of a software development life cycle, effort estimation plays a critical role in helping project managers predict the demands with respect to the budgeting, scheduling, and the allocation of resources. In this situation, the ideal estimation calculation should provide an approximate value figure, which will consist of a base estimation value plus a contingency allowance value, which will cover the risks and assumptions necessary for particular estimation calculations.

However, most software effort estimation methodologies, which include the COCOMO model, provide a fixed effort estimate value instead of an approximate value, and consequently the existing effort estimation …

Personality Types In Software Engineering, Luiz Capretz

Luiz Fernando Capretz

No abstract provided.

Towards An Early Software Estimation Using Log-Linear Regression And A Multilayer Perceptron Model, Ali Bou Nassif, Luiz Fernando Capretz

Luiz Fernando Capretz

Software estimation is a tedious and daunting task in project management and software development. Software estimators are notorious in predicting software effort and they have been struggling in the past decades to provide new models to enhance software estimation. The most critical and crucial part of software estimation is when estimation is required in the early stages of the software life cycle where the problem to be solved has not yet been completely revealed. This paper presents a novel log-linear regression model based on the use case point model (UCP) to calculate the software effort based on use case diagrams. …