An examination of some software development effort and productivity determinants in ICASE tool projects

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 143-160

  Subramanian, Girish H ^a   Zarnich, George E ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Function points; Integrated CASE tools; Rapid application development; Software development effort estimation; Systems development method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002890909     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1996.11518104     Document Type: Article

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