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A Tool for Automating Sizing in Agile Development Using the COSMIC Method

Authors:
Bruel Gérançon
Sylvie Trudel

Keywords: Agile; User Stories; Triplet; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Automation.

Abstract:
Agility is one of the industry's most widely used software development approaches. It lies in the fact that an agile development project is supposed to deliver the functionalities for the product owner as soon as possible. However, automating sizing in agile development remains difficult. The software's functional size measurement methods are challenging to scale for agility. In the industry, managers and scrum masters use empirical methods to estimate the size of user stories manually. One of the pitfalls of this approach is the limited collection of data in agile projects, which makes it challenging to carry out statistical analysis to better estimate the value of appropriate efforts for the subsequent iterations of the projects. This paper presents a tool for automating sizing in agile development using the COSMIC Function Point (CFP) from User Stories written in natural language. Our tool integrates a set of techniques in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which semantically identify the triplet (subjects, predicates or verbs, objects) from items of product backlog (User Stories written in natural language) and automatically quantifies the number of verbs (data movement) which refers to the functional size. Afterward, we applied a set of rules in COSMIC to identify the types of data movement.

Pages: 38 to 41

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: November 13, 2023

Published in: conference

ISBN: 978-1-68558-089-6

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 13, 2023 to November 17, 2023