کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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481801 | 1446186 | 2007 | 11 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
In this paper, we investigate the existence of learning curves in software development. Under the assumption of independent and identical distribution (iid) of programmer’s experience and identical effort-experience learning curve relationship for different programmers, we illustrate the existence of an exponentially decreasing learning curve relationship between a programmer’s effort and his/her ICASE tool experience, and show that the effort-experience relationship is inelastic when a programmer’s ICASE tool experience is low. We analyze the impact of our assumptions on actual software development effort, and propose a tight probability upper bound and a central-limit theorem based probability estimator for estimating the approximate probability that the software development effort will be less than or equal to a certain number. Examples to illustrate the use of the probability estimator are also provided.
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research - Volume 183, Issue 3, 16 December 2007, Pages 1086–1096