Quantifying requirements elaboration to improve early software cost estimation

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2747-2760

  Afzal Malik, Ali ^a   Boehm, Barry ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Capability goal; Elaboration factor; Elaboration group; Empirical study; Level of service goal; Requirements elaboration; Software cost estimation

Indexed keywords

CAPABILITY GOAL; ELABORATION FACTOR; ELABORATION GROUP; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LEVEL OF SERVICE GOAL; REQUIREMENTS ELABORATION; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION;

COSTS; ESTIMATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953845052     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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