EST

Call for paper
April Edition 2017

International Journal of Applied Information Systems solicits high quality original research papers for the
March 15, 2017
April 2017 Edition of the journal.
The last date of research paper submission is
March 15, 2017
SUBMIT YOUR PAPER

Number 7

Effort Estimation in Agile Software Development using Story Points

journal image
  • International Journal of Applied Information Systems
  • Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
  • Volume 3 - Number 7
  • Year of Publication: 2012
  • Authors: Evita Coelho, Anirban Basu
  • 10.5120/ijais12-450574
 Download
1806

Export

  • Evita Coelho and Anirban Basu 2012. Effort Estimation in Agile Software Development using Story Points. International Journal of Applied Information Systems. 3, 7 (August 2012), 7-10. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.5120/ijais450574 
  • @article{10.5120/ijais2017451568,
author = {Evita Coelho and Anirban Basu},
title = {Effort Estimation in Agile Software Development using Story Points},
journal = {International Journal of Applied Information Systems},
issue_date = {August 2012},
volume = {3},
number = {},
month = {August},
year = {2012},
issn = {},
pages = {7-10},
numpages = {},
url = {/archives/volume3/number7/241-0574},
doi = { 10.5120/ijais12-450574},
publisher = { xA9 2010 by IJAIS Journal},
address = {}
}

  • %1 450574
%A Evita Coelho
%A Anirban Basu
%T Effort Estimation in Agile Software Development using Story Points
%J International Journal of Applied Information Systems
%@ 
%V 3
%N 
%P 7-10
%D 2012
%I  xA9 2010 by IJAIS Journal

Abstract

Agile software development has been gaining popularity and replacing the traditional methods of developing software. However, estimating the size and effort in Agile Software development still remains a challenge. This paper gives an overview of the different size estimation methods traditionally used and discusses in details the method based on Story Points, which is at present the most widely used estimation technique in Agile Software Development. The paper describes the steps followed in Story Point based method and highlights the area which needs to be looked into further.

References

  1. LINDSTROM, L. & JEFFRIES, R. , 2004 Extreme Programming and Agile Software Development Methodologies. Information Systems Management, 21, 41-52.
  2. IFPUG: FSM Method: ISO/IEC 20926:2009, Software and systems engineering - Software measurement - IFPUG functional size measurement method
  3. Robert E Park, "Software Size Measurement: A Framework for Counting Source Statements", Technical Report CMU/ SEI-92-TR-020, Software Engineering Institute, pp. 1-242
  4. Peter Hill, 2010 "Practical Software Project Estimation- A Toolkit for Estimating Software Development Effort and Duration" Mc Graw Hill Education,
  5. Mike Cohn "Agile Estimating and Planning" Prentice Hall 1st edition, 2005
  6. K. McDaid, D. Greer, F. Keenan, P. Prior, P. Taylor, G. Coleman, 2006 "Managing Uncertainty in Agile Release Planning", 18th Int. Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'06), pp. 138-143,.
  7. K. Logue, K. McDaid, D. Greer, 2007, "Allowing for Task Uncertainties and Dependencies in Agile Release Planning", 4th Proceedings of the Software Measurement European Forum, pp 275-284.
  8. MOLxD8KKEN, K. & JxD8RGENSEN, M. 2003, A Review of Software Surveys on Software Effort Estimation, Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering. WILLIAMS, L. (2003) the XP Programmer: The Few-Minutes Programmer. IEEE Software, 20, 16-20.
  9. KEUNG, J. , JEFFERY, R. & KITCHENHAM, B. 2004, The Challenge of Introducing a New Software Cost Estimation Technology into a Small Software Organization, Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference. Australia.

Keywords

Story Points, Size Estimation, Effort Estimation

Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences