Innovative approach in web application effort & cost estimation using functional measurement type

Software cost models and effort approximations support project supervisors to distribute resources, control budgets and agenda and develop modern practices, leading to projects completed on time and within financial plan. If cost and effort are determined suspicious in software projects, suitable occasions can be missed; whereas expectant predictions can be affected to some resource losing. In the context of web development, these issues are also vital, and very challenging given that web projects have short schedules and very fluidic opportunity. Since software projects are continually changed in nature, earlier projects may not necessarily cover all aspects of a new project when used as a basis for cost estimation. Preliminary software estimation models are constructed on regression analysis or mathematical sources. This paper aims to propose an approach to develop the correctness of software effort and cost estimation using the structure of data set of a web application. All the measures collected, apart from total effort, were introduced using the original web hypermedia applications to ensure that functional measurement types were precisely measured.

I. Introduction

The cost of software projects and the quality of products are affected by the correctness of software effort estimation. Accurate cost estimation of a software development effort is critical for good management decision making. Predicting software development effort with high precision is still a great challenge for project supervisors. On the otherhand, accurate estimation of the effort and cost of a software system is one of the vital and challenging tasks for software project management. It aids in agreement negotiations, project planning and effective distribution of resources. However, estimates at the introductory stages of the project are the most difficult to acquire because the primary source to estimate the cost comes from the requirement specification documents[1]–[3].