The NASA Analogy Software Costing Tool Suite (ASCoT) consists of a cluster-based analogy estimator for estimating software development effort, a K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) analogy estimator for estimating effort and delivered lines of code, a simple regression-based cost estimating relationship (CER) model that estimates cost in dollars, and a probabilistic version of COCOMO II. In this paper we document the analogy algorithms as well as summarize the results of the performance of the KNN and the principle components (PCA) cluster analogy models. KNN performance is assessed by varying the number of inputs and number of neighbors. Four different clustering methods: K-means, Spectral Clustering, Hierarchical Clustering, and Principle Components Analysis (PCA), and their respective evaluation criterion are described in detail. The comparative performance of all four estimation models is assessed using magnitude of relative error (MRE) measurements.


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    Title :

    ASCoT, the NASA Analogy Software Cost Tool Suite: Expanding Our Estimation Horizons Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91109


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    Publication date :

    2019-03-01


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    5738278 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English