Estimating web application development effort using Web-COBRA and COSMIC: An empirical study

Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 306-312

  Ferrucci, Filomena ^a   Gravino, Carmine ^a   Di Martino, Sergio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

COSMIC; Effort estimation; Web applications

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL SIZE; SIZE MEASURES; WEB APPLICATION; WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; WEB OBJECTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSMOLOGY; ESTIMATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 74549169919     PISSN: 10896503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEAA.2009.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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