Computational intelligence for estimating software development effort: a systematic map** study

TR Benala, A Kaushik, S Dehuri, LC Jain - Iran Journal of Computer …, 2024 - Springer
Software development effort estimation (SDEE) is critical for predicting the required resource
investment. Since the late 2000s, numerous studies have advocated using computational …

U owns the code that changes and how marginal owners resolve issues slower in low-quality source code

M Borg, A Tornhill, E Mones - … of the 27th International Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
[Context] Accurate time estimation is a critical aspect of predictable software engineering.
Previous work shows that low source code quality increases the uncertainty in issue …

Agile effort estimation: Have we solved the problem yet? Insights from a replication study

V Tawosi, R Moussa, F Sarro - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last decade, several studies have explored automated techniques to estimate the
effort of agile software development. We perform a close replication and extension of a …

Increasing, not diminishing: Investigating the returns of highly maintainable code

M Borg, I Pruvost, E Mones, A Tornhill - Proceedings of the 7th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Understanding and effectively managing Technical Debt (TD) remains a vital challenge in
software engineering. While many studies on code-level TD have been published, few …