Investigating Web size metrics for early Web cost estimation

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-172

  Mendes, Emilia ^a   Mosley, Nile ^b   Counsell, Steve ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Okki Software   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FUNCTIONS; HTML; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STANDARDS; XML;

FULL-FUNCTION POINTS; WEB COST ESTIMATION; WEB DEVELOPMENT; WEB SIZE METRICS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 18144382618     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2004.08.034     Document Type: Article

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