NDLI: Investigating the Use of Duration-Based Moving Windows to Improve Software Effort Prediction

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lokan, C. Mendes, E.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	To date most research in software effort estimation has not taken into account any form of chronological split when selecting projects for training and testing sets. A chronological split represents the use of a project's starting and completion dates, such that any model that estimates effort for a new project p only uses as its training set projects that were completed prior to p's starting date. Three recent studies investigated the use of chronological splits, using a type of chronological split called a moving window, which represented a subset of the most recent projects completed prior to a project p's starting date. They found some evidence in favour of using windows whenever projects were recent. These studies all defined window sizes as being fixed numbers of recent projects. In practice, we suggest that estimators are more likely to think in terms of elapsed time than the size of the data set, when deciding which projects to include in a training set. Therefore, this paper investigates the effect on accuracy when using moving windows of various durations to form training sets on which to base effort estimates. Our results show that the use of windows based on duration can affect the accuracy of estimates (in this data set, a window of about three years duration appears best), but to a lesser extent than windows based on a fixed number of projects.
Starting Page	818
Ending Page	827
File Size	193368
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467349307
ISSN	15301362
DOI	10.1109/APSEC.2012.74
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-12-04
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Training Accuracy Estimation Data models Size measurement Training data Windows moving window Chronological splitting effort estimation regression-based estimation models
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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