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AboveSoft Adaptive Estimator is a tool for estimating Project's development time and expenditure. It is adaptive because it can "learn" from historical estimations in order to improve future estimations.

The application calculates a first estimation based on a preconfigured template (an ABAP/4 preconfigured template is provided with the application) and based on your historical estimations it also calculates an adaptive estimation which should better approximate your Project's actual duration.

You can also create your own templates or modify the existing ones. Each of these templates define several nodes that represent a tree of questions; depending on your answers a set of these questions can open up another set of questions.

Every time AboveSoft Adaptive Estimator runs, it generates a unique CRC-32 code for each node of the current template. So if you need to change some node definition of your customized template, you will only disable your existing history for that node. In fact each node will behave as it would have its own history. This feature improves flexibility because you will be able to maintain your templates without worrying about historical estimations.

Also, you can easily build a template for a different programming language, or build a template for some other kind of project not related to a programming development project.