Evaluation of a black-box estimation tool: A case study

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 199-218

  Abran, Alain ^a   Ndiaye, Iphigénie ^b   Bourque, Pierre ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b SCISYS Deutschland GmbH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Software engineering effort estimation; Software engineering planning; Software engineering productivity analysis

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

BLACK-BOX ESTIMATION TOOL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EFFORT ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PLANNING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247523848     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.310     Document Type: Review

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