Tuning of Cost Drivers by Significance Occurrences and Their Calibration with Novel Software Effort Estimation Method

Table 3

Proposed algorithm based cost drivers.

Cost drivers	Very low	Low	Nominal	High	Very high	Extra high
acap	1.46	1.19	0.9	0.86	0.71
pcap	1.42	0.9	1	0.86	0.7
aexp	1.29	1.4	1	0.91	0.82
modp	1.38	0.92	1	0.91	0.82
tool	1.24	1.1	0.99	0.93	0.83
vexp	1.38	1.03	1	0.9
lexp	1.14	1.08	0.9	0.95
sced	1.23	1.08	0.99	1.04	1.1
stor			1	1.06	1.19	1.38
data		1.03	0.9	1.06	1.38
time			0.9	1.11	1.3	1.66
turn		0.97	0.92	1.03	0.9
virt		0.87	1	1.15	1.3
cplx	0.7	0.85	1.11	1.15	1.16	1.65
rely	0.75	0.88	1	1.25	1.4