Uma abordagem baseada em aprendizado de máquina para dimensionamento de requisitos de software

Abstract

This work proposes to perform the automatic sizing of software requirements using a machine learning approach. The database used is real and was obtained from a company that works with Scrum-based development process and Planning Poker es- timation. During the studies, data pre-processing, classification and selection of best attributes were used along with the term frequency–inverse document frequency algo- rithm (tf-idf) and principal component analysis (PCA). Machine learning and automatic sorting occurred with the use of Support Vector Machines (SVM) based on available data history. The final tests were performed with and without attribute selection by PCA. It is demonstrated that the assertiveness is greater when the best attributes are selected. The final tool can estimate the size of user stories with a generalization of up to 91 %. The results were considered likely to be used in the production environment without any problems to the development team.