Assessing effort estimation models for corrective maintenance through empirical studies

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-15

  De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Pompella, Eugenio ^b   Stefanucci, Silvio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b EDS Italia Software SpA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corrective software maintenance; Cost estimation models; Experimentation; Management; Measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CORRECTIVE SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COST ESTIMATION MODELS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPERIMENTATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 9444284317     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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