A family of experiments to evaluate a functional size measurement procedure for Web applications

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 253-269

  Abrahão, Silvia ^a   Poels, Geert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Empirical software engineering; Functional size measurement; Method evaluation; Software measurement; Web engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MEASUREMENTS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WEB SERVICES;

EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FUNCTIONAL SIZE MEASUREMENT; METHOD EVALUATION; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; WEB ENGINEERING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 58549111018     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.06.031     Document Type: Article

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