Automated Software Sizing

"At the inception stage of a software project, it is critical to understand its scope. Scope is generally captured by a specific metric, such as lines of code or function points. And yet, in the early phases of a project, size metrics are extremelydifficult to obtain and the often extensive sizing effort is an additional burden on the development organization. This project directly addresses the problem of producing an early estimate of project size. The AutoGen suite of automated software sizingtools will advance the state of software sizing by allowing early estimation of size from UML use cases, estimation from software requirements documents, and automated estimation of size from requirements repositories. To attain higher accuracy, thesetools will use estimating methodologies that are trainable to particular circumstances."