The Application of Meta-Heuristic Algorithms to Improve the Performance of Software Development Effort Estimation Models

Maryam Hassani Saadi, Vahid Khatibi Bardsiri and Fahimeh Ziaaddini
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Maryam Hassani Saadi: Department of Computer Engineering, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran
Vahid Khatibi Bardsiri: Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran
Fahimeh Ziaaddini: Department of Computer Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran

International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC), 2015, vol. 6, issue 4, 39-68

Abstract: One of the major activities in effective and efficient production of software projects is the precise estimation of software development effort. Estimation of the effort in primary steps of software development is one of the most important challenges in managing software projects. Some reasons for these challenges such as: discordant software projects, the complexity of the manufacturing process, special role of human and high level of obscure and unusual features of software projects can be noted. Predicting the necessary efforts to develop software using meta-heuristic optimization algorithms has made significant progressions in this field. These algorithms have the potent to be used in estimation of the effort of the software. The necessity to increase estimation precision urged the authors to survey the efficiency of some meta-heuristic optimization algorithms and their effects on the software projects. To do so, in this paper, they investigated the effect of combining various optimization algorithms such as genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization algorithm and ant colony algorithm on different models such as COCOMO, estimation based on analogy, machine learning methods and standard estimation models. These models have employed various data sets to evaluate the results such as COCOMO, Desharnais, NASA, Kemerer, CF, DPS, ISBSG and Koten & Gary. The results of this survey can be used by researchers as a primary reference.

Date: 2015
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