HOW TO ASSESS SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION TO DEVELOP AN EFFECTIVE INTEGRATED APPROACH

This paper aims to provide a systematic documentation of the software cost estimation research during the last decade and thus instigate the need and the opportunity to research in this field. The review identifies software cost estimation papers in journals and highlights the importance of performance prediction to be implemented in various compression methods. This paper was created to cater to the growing interest in the field of software efficiency research and provide students and scholars alike a window into this field. We would like to throw light upon the areas of specialisation in the last ten years. These details combined with other needed research input and can provide support for recommendations for future software cost estimation research, including 1) wide spectrum and array of similar papers 2) A manual detailed study which is eased through this paper and 3) implementation of these concepts in real time examples thus being a service to the society and 4) increase the awareness of how the data, impact the results when estimating the cost using an effective integrated approach.