Measuring software functional size from business process models

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 311-338

  Monsalve, Carlos ^a,b   Abran, Alain ^b   April, Alain ^b  

^a ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

BPMN; business process model; business process modeling; COSMIC; FSM; Functional size measurement; ISO 19761; Qualigram; requirements modeling

Indexed keywords

BPMN; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; COSMIC; FSM; FUNCTIONAL SIZE MEASUREMENTS; ISO 19761; QUALIGRAM; REQUIREMENTS MODELING;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79960785390     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194011005359     Document Type: Article

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