A software size estimation model and its evaluation

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-263

  Hakuta, Mitsuari ^a   Tone, Fujimitsu ^a   Ohminami, Masato ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

SOFTWARE SIZE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0031162634     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(96)00020-9     Document Type: Article

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