An empirical study on the likelihood of adoption in practice of a size measurement procedure for requirements specification

Proceedings - International Conference on Quality Software

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 133-140

  Condori Fernández, Nelly ^a   Pastor, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ESSENTIAL PARAMETERS; ESTIMATION MODELS; FUNCTIONAL SIZE MEASUREMENT; METHOD EVALUATION MODEL (MEM);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34250706743     PISSN: 15506002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QSIC.2006.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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