Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
7-2008
Abstract
Even today, software projects still suffer from delays and budget overspending. The causes for this problem are compounded when the project team is distributed across different locations and generally attributed to the decreasing ability to communicate well (due to cultural, linguistic, and physical distance). Many projects, especially those with off-shoring component, consist of small iterations with changes, deletions and additions, yet there is no formal model of the flow of iterations available. A number of commercially available project prediction tools for projects as a whole exist, but the model adaptation process by iteration, if it exists, is unclear. Furthermore, no project data is available publicly to train on and understand the iterative process. In this work, we discuss parameters and formulas that are well founded in the literature and demonstrate their use within a simulation tool. Project timeline prediction capability is demonstrated on various scenarios of change requests. On a real-world example, we show that iteration-based data collection is necessary to train both the parameters and formulas to accurately model the software engineering process to gain a full understanding of complexities in software engineering process.
Keywords
Software projects, simulation tools, prediction capability, iterations
Discipline
Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
Software Engineering Approaches to Outsourcing and Offshore Development: 2nd International Conference, SEAFOOD 2008, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3: Revised papers
Volume
16
First Page
15
Last Page
32
ISBN
9783642018558
Identifier
10.1007/978-3-642-01856-5_2
Publisher
Springer
City or Country
Cham
Embargo Period
6-23-2021
Citation
BERKLING, Kay; KIRAGIANNIS, Georgios; ZUNDEL, Armin; and DATTA, Subhajit.
Timeline prediction framework for iterative software engineering projects with changes. (2008). Software Engineering Approaches to Outsourcing and Offshore Development: 2nd International Conference, SEAFOOD 2008, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3: Revised papers. 16, 15-32.
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Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01856-5_2