A review of effort estimation studies in agile, iterative and incremental software development

Proceedings - 2013 RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies: Research, Innovation, and Vision for Future, RIVF 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 27-30

  Nguyen Cong, Danh ^a   Tran Cao, De ^a  

^a CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

agile; cost estimation; effort estimation; incremental software development; iterative software development; RUP; scrum; size estimation; systematic review; XP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894206536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RIVF.2013.6719861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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