Software effort estimator

"Effort-estimator" is an extension that facilitates the estimation of human effort needed to complete a software development project.

Features

The extension uses 5 project-specific attributes, namely:

• lenght of the project, measured in months
• number of entities in the data model
• number of logical transactions in the system
• size of the project measured in adjusted function points
• size of the project measured in non-adjusted function points

which must be given by the user, either manually or by uploading a .csv file.

After the data was provided, the extension will validate it and notify the user if there are any irregularities found through a popup message. If valid data was provided, the server is called, the side panel is automatically opened and real-time populated with the response received from the server.

This extension provides the following commands:

• Effort estimation: Estimate effort, which opens the graphics panel of the extension
• Effort estimation: : Refresh side panel, which refreshes the side panel of the extension
• Effort estimation: : Refresh graphics panel, which refreshes the graphics panel of the extension

Note: The extension will not perform the prediction by itself yet, the user must clone and locally run the server mentioned in the Requirements section.

Requirements

For now, the extension uses a local server, which can be found here and which requires the following packages in order to run:

Flask==2.1.2
gunicorn==20.1.0
numpy==1.22.3
pandas==1.4.2
scikit_learn==1.1.1
keras==2.9.0
scikeras==0.8.0
tensorflow==2.9.0

Known Issues

This is a demo extension, it will not work in production mode since the server side has not been successfully deployed.

Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release of the Software effort estimator. It includes the effort estimation measured in human-hours based on the manually inputted data.