Effort estimation of use cases for incremental large-scale software development

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 303-311

  Mohagheghi, Parastoo ^a,b   Anda, Bente ^c   Conradi, Reidar ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^c SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Estimation; Incremental development; Use cases

Indexed keywords

INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT; LARGE SCALE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; USE CASE POINTS METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA HANDLING; ESTIMATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33244495310     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2005.1553573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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