Evidence on economies of scale in software development

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 275-282

  Banker, Rajiv D ^a   Chang, Hsihui ^a   Kemerer, Chris F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

data envelopment analysis; function points; productivity measurement; returns to scale; scale economies; software development; software management; software metrics; source lines of code

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001195181     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(94)90083-3     Document Type: Article

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