Predicting development effort from user stories

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 400-403

  Abrahamsson, Pekka ^a   Fronza, Ilenia ^a   Moser, Raimund ^a   Vlasenko, Jelena ^a   Pedrycz, Witold ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agile methods; Effort prediction; User storie

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODS; AGILE SOFTWARES; DIFFERENT SIZES; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EFFORT PREDICTION; USER STORIE; USER STORIES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84858733458     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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