Establishing relationships between specification size and software process effort in CASE environments

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-45

  MacDonell, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CASE; Process effort; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030735131     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(96)01125-1     Document Type: Article

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