Web effort estimation: The value of cross-company data set compared to single-company data set

Author First name, Last name, Institution

Filomena Ferrucci, Università di Salerno
Federica Sarro, Zayed University
Emilia Mendes, Università di Salerno

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Publication Date

10-26-2012

Abstract

This study investigates to what extent Web effort estimation models built using cross-company data sets can provide suitable effort estimates for Web projects belonging to another company, when compared to Web effort estimates obtained using that company's own data on their past projects (single-company data set). It extends a previous study (S3) where these same research questions were investigated using data on 67 Web projects from the Tukutuku database. Since S3 was carried out, data on other 128 Web projects was added to Tukutuku; therefore this study uses the entire set of 195 projects from the Tukutuku database, which now also includes new data from other single-company data sets. Predictions between cross-company and singlecompany models are compared using Manual Stepwise Regression+Linear Regression and Case-Based Reasoning. In addition, we also investigated to what extent applying a filtering mechanism to cross-company datasets prior to building prediction models can affect the accuracy of the effort estimates they provide. The present study corroborates the conclusions of S3 since the cross-company models provided much worse predictions than the single-company models. Moreover, the use of the filtering mechanism significantly improved the prediction accuracy of cross-company models when estimating singlecompany projects, making it comparable to that using singlecompany datasets. Copyright © 2012 ACM.

DOI Link

10.1145/2365324.2365330

ISBN

9781450312417

Publisher

ACM Press

First Page

29

Last Page

38

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Case-based reasoning, Cost estimation, Cross-company effort model, Effort estimation, Filtering mechanism, Single-company effort model, Stepwise regression, Web projects

Scopus ID

84867703659

Recommended Citation

Ferrucci, Filomena; Sarro, Federica; and Mendes, Emilia, "Web effort estimation: The value of cross-company data set compared to single-company data set" (2012). All Works. 3948.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/3948

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no