Function Points in the Estimation and Evaluation of the Software Process

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 64-71

  Low, Graham C ^a   Jeffery, D Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Estimation; Function points; Lines of code; Quantitative measurement; Software management; Software size

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION POINTS; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE SIZE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0025257986     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.44364     Document Type: Article

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