“Software project economics: a roadmap” Martin Shepperd Proc. of 30th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Softw. Eng. MInneapolis, May 2007
Paper Objectives to consider research progress in the field of software project economics to identify important challenges and promising research directions.
Bibliometrics
Challenges how we can combine results from primary studies? integration of multiple predictions greater emphasis upon the human aspects of prediction tasks
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“Comparing Local and Global Software Effort Estimation Models – Reflections on a Systematic Review” Steve MacDonell and Martin Shepperd Submitted to Empirical Software Engineering & Measurement Conference, Madrid Sept 2007.
Objective to report on the results of a systematic review to reflect upon the process
Results found 10 primary studies hard to compare/combine need to develop reporting protocols and agreed methods of analysis pool data (long term goal)
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