The size and effort estimates in iterative development

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 772-781

  Heričko, Marjan ^a   Živkovič, Aleš ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Effort estimates; Function Point Analysis method; Iterative development; Object oriented size estimation

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EFFORT ESTIMATES; FUNCTION POINT ANALYSIS METHOD; ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT; OBJECT ORIENTED SIZE ESTIMATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 42649138576     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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