Estimating the effort overhead in global software development

Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 267-276

  Lamersdorf, Ansgar ^a   Münch, Jürgen ^a   Fernández Del Viso Torre, Alicia ^b   Sánchez, Carlos Rebate ^b   Rombach, Dieter ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b University of Kaiserslautern and Fraunhofer IESE ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

CoBRA; Cost estimation; Effort estimation; Global software development; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

COST ESTIMATING;

COBRA; COST ESTIMATIONS; EFFORT ESTIMATION; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TASK ALLOCATION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78149292544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2010.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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