Class point: An approach for the size estimation of object-oriented systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 52-74

  Costagliola, Gennaro ^a   Ferrucci, Filomena ^a   Tortora, Genoveffa ^a   Vitiello, Giuliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Effort prediction model; Empirical validation; Function point analysis; Object oriented systems; Size measures; Theoretical validation

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EFFORT PREDICTION MODEL; FUNCTION POINT ANALYSIS; OBJECT ORIENTED SYSTEMS; SIZE MEASURES; SOFTWARE SIZE;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 17644395947     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.5     Document Type: Article

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