An association rule mining method for estimating the impact of project management policies on software quality, development time and effort

Accurate and early estimations are essential for effective decision making in software project management. Nowadays, classical estimation models are being replaced by data mining models due to their application simplicity and the rapid production of profitable results. In this work, a method for min...

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Autores: Moreno García, María N., Ramos Román, Isabel, García Peñalvo, Francisco J., Toro Bonilla, Miguel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/59115
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/59115
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2006.09.022
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Association rules
Data mining
Software estimation
Project management
Simulation
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Sumario:Accurate and early estimations are essential for effective decision making in software project management. Nowadays, classical estimation models are being replaced by data mining models due to their application simplicity and the rapid production of profitable results. In this work, a method for mining association rules that relate project attributes is proposed. It deals with the problem of discretizing continuous data in order to generate a manageable number of high confident association rules. The method was validated by applying it to data from a Software Project Simulator. The association model obtained allows us to estimate the influence of certain management policy factors on various software project attributes simultaneously.