How valuable is company-specific data compared to multi-company data for software cost estimation?

Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 237-246

  Wieczorek, I ^a   Ruhe, M ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Computer science; Costs; Databases; Electrical capacitance tomography; Monitoring; Read only memory; Software engineering; Software quality; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST ENGINEERING; COST ESTIMATING; COSTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; ROM; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANALOGY BASED ESTIMATION; DATA ACCUMULATION; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATIONS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE QUALITY; STANDARD COSTS; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION METHODS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84948451781     PISSN: 15301435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2002.1011342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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