Estimating software development effort based on use cases – experiences from industry

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2185, Issue , 2001, Pages 487-502

  Anda, Bente ^a   Dreiem, Hege ^b   Sjøberg, Dag I K ^a,c   Jørgensen, Magne ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Alstom Norway AS   (Norway)

^c SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Estimation; Industrial experience; Use cases

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EFFORT ESTIMATION; ESTIMATING SOFTWARE; ESTIMATION PROCESS; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE; OBJECT-ORIENTED ANALYSIS; PROVIDE GUIDANCES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84948969943     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45441-1_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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