A software size model

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 265-278

  Verner, June ^a   Tate, Graham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Function point analysis; lines of code; metrics; product; software metrics; software size estimation

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE SIZE ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0026850596     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.129216     Document Type: Article

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