Experiences on Developer Participation and Effort Estimation

2011 37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications Pub Date : 2011-08-30 DOI:10.1109/SEAA.2011.71

Ekrem Kocaguneli, Ayse Tosun Misirli, Bora Caglayan, A. Bener

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Software effort estimation is critical for resource allocation and planning. Accurate estimates enable managers to distribute the workload among resources in a balanced manner. The actual workload of developers may be different from the values observed in project management tools. In this research, we provide a summary of our experiences regarding: a) effort estimation activities, b) the developer workload distribution through churn data and c) a method of using churn data to track estimation process. Our experience report depends on our collaborative work with our industry partners operating in various domains in Turkey. As a result, we observe that effort estimation is taken as an important topic. However, there is a large space for research to transfer the ad-hoc methods employed in industry to empirical ones. Interestingly, we observe that resource allocations based on initial estimates/plans do not conform to actual values. The common characteristic of developer contribution in different projects is: More than 80% of edits in code are performed by a small number of developers.

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开发人员参与和工作量评估的经验

软件工作量评估对于资源分配和计划是至关重要的。准确的评估使管理人员能够以平衡的方式在资源之间分配工作负载。开发人员的实际工作量可能与项目管理工具中观察到的值不同。在这项研究中，我们总结了我们在以下方面的经验:a)工作量估算活动，b)通过流失数据分配开发人员的工作量，以及c)使用流失数据跟踪估算过程的方法。我们的经验报告取决于我们与土耳其各个领域的行业合作伙伴的协作工作。因此，我们注意到工作量估计被视为一个重要的主题。然而，将工业中使用的临时方法转化为实证方法还有很大的研究空间。有趣的是，我们观察到基于初始估计/计划的资源分配不符合实际值。不同项目中开发人员贡献的共同特征是:80%以上的代码编辑是由少数开发人员执行的。

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