Effect of cmmi-based software process maturity on software schedule estimation

Malaysian Journal of Computer Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-137

  Alyahya, Maged A ^a   Ahmad, Rodina ^a   Lee, Sai Peck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

CMMI; COCOMO; Cost driver; Scale factor; Schedule estimation; SW CMM

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955165443     PISSN: 01279084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22452/mjcs.vol22no2.3     Document Type: Article

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