Background: Accurate effort estimation is crucial for planning in Agile iterative development.
Agile estimation generally relies on consensus-based methods like planning poker, which …

Effort and cost estimation is essential processes during software development. For agile
methodologies as well, several approaches have been proposed so far to estimate the …

Software is increasingly important for our society. However, software industry presents flaws
to meet market demands in a faster and reliable way. Agile methods are a way to tackle this …

Estimating during the early stages is crucial for determining the feasibility and conducting
the budgeting and planning of agile software development (ASD) projects. However, due to …

Abstract Problem: Since the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, the cost analysis
community has struggled to find the most appropriate size measures for developing accurate …

In recent years, edge computing has become the ideal computing paradigm for various
smart systems, such as smart logistics, smart health and smart transportation. This is due to …

Context Decision makers struggle to develop rough order of magnitude cost estimates early
in an agile software project's lifecycle, when lack of detailed functional user requirements …

Inadequate early scope estimation is a common problem in software projects, leading to
failures in meeting project requirements. Agile projects usually do not concentrate on a …

This study examines the impact of AI programming assistants like GitHub Copilot and
ChatGPT on software engineering efficiency, an area that has seen limited empirical …

Without sufficient effort, the development of a software project will be hindered and may
even significantly fail, thus jeopardizing the quality of the software developers. Therefore …