The Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Software Effort Estimation

Abstract

Estimate the cost and time required to build the software system is one of the most important aspects of software project management. Estimation or effort required to develop a software system is one of the major concerns of the project manager. Activity and time required to complete the process and the cost of each process will be studied in the context of estimation. There have been a lot of patterns for effort and cost estimates up to now. This is beneficial and necessary that in the early stages of construction with a minimum of information of the project, estimate effort and cost of development of a software system. Learning methods, such as neural networks, is one of these models. In this paper, the software effort estimation by the neural network has been studied and their assessment criteria have been compared.