Revisiting Software Development Effort Estimation Based on Early Phase Development Activities
Authors -
Masateru, Tsunoda;
Koji, Toda;
Kyohei, Fushida;
Yasutaka, Kamei;
Meiyappan, Nagappan and
Ubayashi, Naoyasu
Venue -
In Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 18 19, 2013
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Abstract -
One of the goals of software engineering research is to achieve generality:
Are the phenomena found in a few projects reflective of
others? Will a technique perform as well on projects other than the
projects it is evaluated on? While it is common sense to select a
sample that is representative of a population, the importance of diversity
is often overlooked, yet as important. In this paper, we combine
ideas from representativeness and diversity and introduce a
measure called sample coverage, defined as the percentage of projects
in a population that are similar to the given sample. We introduce
algorithms to compute the sample coverage for a given set of
projects and to select the projects that increase the coverage the
most. We demonstrate our technique on research presented over
the span of two years at ICSE and FSE with respect to a population
of 20,000 active open source projects monitored by Ohloh.net.
Knowing the coverage of a sample enhances our ability to reason
about the findings of a study. Furthermore, we propose reporting
guidelines for research: in addition to coverage scores, papers
should discuss the target population of the research (universe) and
dimensions that potentially can influence the outcomes of a research
(space)
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@article{Tsunoda2013,
author = {Masateru, Tsunoda and Koji, Toda and Kyohei, Fushida and Yasutaka, Kamei and Meiyappan, Nagappan and Naoyasu Ubayashi},
keyword = {Defect Prediction},
title = {Revisiting Software Development Effort Estimation Based on Early Phase Development Activities},
type = {conference},
venue = {In Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 18 19, 2013}
}