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Background: Estimating the effort required for software engineering tasks is incredibly tricky, but it is critical for project planning. Issue reports are frequently used in the agile community to describe tasks, and story points are used to estimate task effort. Aim: This paper proposes a machine learning regression model for estimating the number of story points needed to solve a task. The system...