A survey on software cost estimation in the Chinese software industry

ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 253-262

  Yang, Da ^a,b   Wang, Qing ^a   Li, Mingshu ^a   Yang, Ye ^a   Ye, Kai ^a,b   Du, Jing ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Estimation method; Estimation model; Software cost estimation

Indexed keywords

COSTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SURVEYS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

CHINESE SOFTWARE INDUSTRIES; COST AND SCHEDULES; CURRENT SITUATIONS; DATA SETS; ESTIMATION METHOD; ESTIMATION MODEL; LARGE PROJECTS; MODEL-BASED METHODS; PROJECT ESTIMATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 62949174268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414004.1414045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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