Estimating CASE development size from outline specifications

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 391-399

  Cockcroft, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CASE; CASE application products; Computer aided software engineering; Size estimation; Size measurement; Software process modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION EQUATIONS; SIZE MEASUREMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELING; SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030172376     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(95)01065-3     Document Type: Article

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