Software productivity measurement using multiple size measures

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1023-1035

  Kitchenham, Barbara ^a,b   Mendes, Emilia ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Software cost estimation; Software productivity measurement

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 23844464576     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2004.104     Document Type: Article

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