Utilizing Change Impact Analysis for Improving Effort Estimation in Agile Software Development

Effort estimation is used for planning and managing all phases of software development. Traditional estimation methods rely on having a mostly "complete" and "fixed" specification of a system. In agile software development, cost and effort estimation is challenging, as the requirements cannot be specified entirely upfront and are evolved as development progress and users interact with the product. Current practice in this context relies heavily on human judgment which has several limitations. I ...