Paper Info
Title
Estimating CASE development size from outline specifications
Abstract
Size is a significant variable in cost/estimation modelling and is widely regarded as one of the most important determinants of effort. The research documented here was carried out in response to problems associated with estimation in project management. This paper discusses some empirical evidence arising from a study of design size estimation. The approach used here is to count the number of lines in the automatically generated CASE report. These are then used in the estimation equations as a measurement unit. Results from this study are shown to support earlier conjectures that design size can be estimated from early system specifications in CASE development environments. The study concludes that accurate size estimations can be made using data from early system specifications.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1016/0950-5849(95)01065-3
Information and Software Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Computer-aided software engineering,CASE,CASE application products,Size measurement,Size estimation,Software process modelling
Units of measurement,Systems engineering,Empirical evidence,Computer science,Computer-aided software engineering,Project management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
6
0950-5849
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.86
20
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sophie Cockcroft1608.01