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What is Estimated Effort

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Tools and Techniques for Software Development in Large Organizations: Emerging Research and Opportunities

The approximate prediction of efforts projected by estimator to perform application development on time and within the budget.

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Software Effort Estimation for Successful Software Application Development

Syed Mohsin Saif (Islamic University of Science and Technology, India)

Source Title: Tools and Techniques for Software Development in Large Organizations: Emerging Research and Opportunities

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1863-2.ch003

Abstract

The recent advancements in information and communication technology (ICT) have inspired all the operational domains of both public and private sector enterprise to endorse this technology. Software development plays a crucial role in supporting ICT. Software effort estimation serves as a critical factor in software application development, and it helps application development teams to complete the development process on time and within budget. Many developmental approaches have been used for software effort estimation, but most of them were conventional software methods and therefore failed to produce accurate results when it came to web or mobile effort estimation. This chapter explains different types of software applications, software estimation models, the importance of software effort estimation, and challenges faced in software effort estimation.

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