A Simplified Alternate Approach to Estimate Software Size of Startups
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Chandrasekaran Sridharan Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Corresponding Author) |
Sudhaman Parthasarathy Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Abstract: This paper proposes an alternate approach to startups to estimate the size of software product to be built by them using the Software Product Points (SPP). Dataset from 20 software projects of a startup company in India was used to validate the proposed approach and learn lessons out of it. The estimated software product points and the project efforts were found to have a strong positive correlation, thereby indicating the suitability of the proposed approach for its utility by the managers of future software projects of startups. We also briefly outline the implications for project managers of startups and scope for future research.
Keywords: Software size, software projects, quality function deployment, process improvement, optimization.
Received January 19, 2021; accepted September 5, 2021