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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. …