Context Software maintainability is one of the fundamental quality attributes of software
engineering. The accurate prediction of software maintainability is a significant challenge for …

Software developers require effective effort estimation models to facilitate project planning.
Although Usman et al. systematically reviewed and synthesized the effort estimation models …

Surveys show that the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) is the most widely used
measure of prediction accuracy in businesses and organizations. It is, however, biased …

Context Due to the complex nature of software development process, traditional parametric
models and statistical methods often appear to be inadequate to model the increasingly …

Although there has been substantial research in software analytics for effort estimation in
traditional software projects, little work has been done for estimation in agile projects …

Story point estimation is a task to estimate the overall effort required to fully implement a
product backlog item. Various estimation approaches (eg, Planning Poker, Analogy, and …

Scientific data represents a significant portion of the linked open data cloud and scientists
stand to benefit from the data fusion capability this will afford. Publishing linked data into the …

With the rise of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) field, defect datasets extracted from
software repositories play a foundational role in many empirical studies related to software …

Effort estimation is the most critical activity for the success of overall solution delivery in
software engineering projects. In this context, the paper's main contributions to the literature …

Finding good configurations of a software system is often challenging since the number of
configuration options can be large. Software engineers often make poor choices about …