Software Development Effort Duration and Cost Estimation using Linear Regression and K-Nearest Neighbors Machine Learning Algorithms
Bhaskar Marapelli
Bhaskar Marapelli, Scholar at Sri JagadishPrasad JhabarmalTibrewala University, Rajasthan, India.
Manuscript received on November 13, 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on 23 November, 2019. | Manuscript published on December 10, 2019. | PP: 1043-1047 | Volume-9 Issue-2, December 2019. | Retrieval Number: K23060981119/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.K2306.129219
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Abstract: Effort estimation is a crucial step that leads to Duration estimation and cost estimation in software development. Estimations done in the initial stage of projects are based on requirements that may lead to success or failure of the project. Accurate estimations lead to success and inaccurate estimates lead to failure. There is no one particular method which cloud do accurate estimations. In this work, we propose Machine learning techniques linear regression and K-nearest Neighbors to predict Software Effort estimation using COCOMO81, COCOMONasa, and COCOMONasa2 datasets. The results obtained from these two methods have been compared. The 80% data in data sets used for training and remaining used as the test set. The correlation coefficient, Mean squared error (MSE) and Mean magnitude relative error (MMRE) are used as performance metrics. The experimental results show that these models forecast the software effort accurately.
Keywords: Machine Learning, Linear Regression, K-Nearest Neighbors, COCOMO.
Scope of the Article: Machine Learning