Software development productivity prediction of small programs using fuzzy logic

In this paper, a fuzzy logic model was created from a data set of 140 small programs developed with practices based on Personal Software Process (PSP) and then this fuzzy model was applied for predicting the productivity of a new data set consisted of 60 small programs; all programs were developed with object oriented programming languages by 35 and 15 graduated programmers respectively. Accuracy result of this fuzzy logic model was compared with that of a statistical regression model. Results suggest that a fuzzy logic model could be used for estimating and predicting productivity of the software development. © 2010 IEEE