Software Effort Estimation Using Enhanced COCOMO Model

The efforts are to be estimated before beginning with the development of software. This technique is known as effort estimation. The proposed work includes estimating the efforts of software using hybrid technique involved in previous models. COCOMO is constructive cost model and is considered as the most accurate model for effort estimation. In this work a hybrid formula used that depends upon the values of cost drivers. The generated result will estimate closer efforts than COCOMO. There are 47 projects with defined values of cost drivers. The efforts of each model are being calculated and their MMRE is calculated. The result shows that the hybrid model is derived by using TLBO algorithm provides more accurate results than the other estimation models.