Software Function, Source Lines of Code, and Development Effort Prediction: A Software Science Validation

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-9, Issue 6, 1983, Pages 639-648

  Albrecht, Allan J ^a   Gaffney, John E ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost estimating; function points; software linguistics; software science; software size estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0020844328     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1983.235271     Document Type: Article

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