Abstract:
Software sizing is a crucial activity among the task of software management.
Work planning and subsequent estimation of effort and cost required is based
on the estimate of the software size required. Software developers are
realizing the need to speed up the development process to respond to
customers' needs .This has resulted in adoption of rapid development
methods and adoption of agile methodologies.
Incremental method of software development has been adopted as one of the
methods to speed up software development. Unfortunately there is little work
that has been done to develop a clear framework to estimate software size and
cost in incremental software development environment.
This research work proposes the use of Pairwise Comparison matrices
framework to estimate size and cost in incremental software development and
evaluate the pairwise comparison framework against Putman's size
estimation model to determine if it produces more accurate results in terms of
estimation of size relative to actual size.
