Estimating software size with UML models

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 273, Issue , 2008, Pages 81-87

  Levesque, Ghislain ^a   Bevo, Valery ^a   Cao, Tran De ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b University of Can Tho   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Function point; Productivity model; Software size estimation; UML sequence diagram; UML use case

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION POINT; PRODUCTIVITY MODEL; SOFTWARE SIZE ESTIMATION; UML SEQUENCE DIAGRAM; UML USE CASE;

COSMOLOGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 57049091734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370256.1370268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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