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Software Maintenance Cost Estimation using RBF Network

RBF망을 이용한 소프트웨어 유지보수 비용 추정

  • Published : 2004.05.01
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Abstract

Software industry has put more emphasis on maintenance and enhancement work than on the new development. The existing effort estimation models can still be applied to maintenance projects, though modifications are needed. This paper suggests a way to estimate the size of a maintenance project from the regression analysis of ISBSG's benchmarking data. First of all, among the 3 elements(addition, modification and deletion of the program) which influences the software cost, we selected and classified 4 groups from a total of 8 which shows actual maintenance cost from ISBSG's data. Moreover, we developed statistical model and a model which uses RBF(Radial Basis Function) Network and after evaluating each functions we concluded that the RBF Network is superior to the statistical model.

소프트웨어 회사들은 새로운 개발보다는 기존 프로젝트의 유지보수와 성능향상 프로젝트를 보다 많이 수행한다. 기존의 비용 추정 모델들은 유지보수 프로젝트들에 적용할 수 있지만, 유지보수 분야에 적용시키기 위해서는 변경이 필요하다. 본 논문은 개발 프로젝트와 유지보수 프로젝트의 기능점수 계산방법을 분류하고 ISBSG의 밴치마킹 자료를 회귀 분석한 결과를 토대로 유지보수 프로젝트의 비용을 측정할 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 먼저, ISBSG 자료를 소프트웨어 비용에 영향을 미치는 요소인 프로그램 추가, 변경과 삭제 3가지 요소의 8가지 중에서 실제 유지보수가 나타나는 4가지 그룹으로 분류하였다. 그리고, 그룹별로 통계적 모델과 RBF 망(Radial Basis Function Network)을 이용한 모델을 개발하여 각각의 성능을 분석 평가한 결과 RBF 망이 통계적 모델보다 좋은 성능을 보였다.

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