Suitability assessment of software developers: a fuzzy approach

The right selection of software personnels helps keep project cost low, deliver better quality software and avoids the schedule slippage of a software project. We have identified the 3 most essential abilities/aptitudes which can decide comparative merit of the software developers. These are Verbal Reasoning (VR), Numerical Ability (NA) and Abstract Reasoning (AR). As a fuzzy model is a best choice for managing ambiguous, doubtful, contradicting and diverging opinions we propose a three input and single output fuzzy model to unify the crisp output of the 3 tests (i.e., VR, NA, AR). The output of the proposed fuzzy model a single numerical value that decides the merit of a developer based on the scores he obtains in VR, NA and AR.