Determinants of variability in function point estimates

Journal of End User Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 19-28

  Subramanian, Ashok ^a   Lacity, Mary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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EID: 0040951848     PISSN: 10632239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/joeuc.1997100102     Document Type: Article

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