Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Insights on research techniques towards cost estimation in software design Subject The topic of the resource Effort estimation; Fault prediction; Software cost estimation; Software modelling Description An account of the resource Software cost estimation is of the most challenging task in project management in order to ensuring smoother development operation and target achievement. There has been evolution of various standards tools and techniques for cost estimation practiced in the industry at present times. However, it was never investigated about the overall picturization of effectiveness of such techniques till date. This paper initiates its contribution by presenting taxonomies of conventional cost-estimation techniques and then investigates the research trends towards frequently addressed problems in it. The paper also reviews the existing techniques in well-structured manner in order to highlight the problems addressed, techniques used, advantages associated and limitation explored from literatures. Finally, we also brief the explored open research issues as an added contribution to this manuscript. 2017 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Naik P.; Nayak S. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol-7, No. 5, pp. 2883-2894. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v7i5.pp2883-2894" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v7i5.pp2883-2894</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85057359352&amp;doi=10.11591%2Fijece.v7i5.pp2883-2894&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=6e54a47d6e745fa53d05ab9561b77451" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85057359352&amp;doi=10.11591%2fijece.v7i5.pp2883-2894&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=6e54a47d6e745fa53d05ab9561b77451</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Open Access; Green Open Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 20888708 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Naik P., VTU, Dept of Computer Science &amp; Engineering, Faculty of Engg, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Nayak S., Dept of Information Science and Engineering, RV College of Engineering Bangalore, India