Estimating effort by use case points: Method, tool and case study

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 292-299

  Kusumoto, Shinji ^a   Matukawa, Fumikazu ^a   Inoue, Katsuro ^a   Hanabusa, Shigeo ^b   Maegawa, Yuusuke ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HITACHI SYSTEMS & SERVICES, LTD (CO); SOFTWARE PROJECTS; USE CASE POINT (UCP);

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; LOGIC DESIGN; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 14844283789     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2004.1357913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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