Abstract
This paper reports on an experiment that investigates the predictability of software project size from software product size. The predictability research problem is analyzed at the stage of early requirements by accounting the size of functional requirements as well as the size of non-functional requirements. The experiment was carried out with 55 graduate students in Computer Science from Concordia University in Canada. In the experiment, a functional size measure and a project size measure were used in building estimation models for sets of web application development projects. The results show that project size is predictable from product size. Further replications of the experiment are, however, planed to obtain more results to confirm or disconfirm our claim.
Original language | Undefined |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2010) |
Editors | O. Ormandjieva, C. Constantinides, A. Abran, R. Lee |
Place of Publication | USA |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Pages | 276-282 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-7695-4075-7 |
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Publication status | Published - 14 May 2010 |
Event | 8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2010 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 24 May 2010 → 26 May 2010 Conference number: 8 http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~sera2010/ |
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Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Conference
Conference | 8th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2010 |
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Abbreviated title | SERA |
Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Montreal |
Period | 24/05/10 → 26/05/10 |
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Keywords
- METIS-276728
- Functional Size Measurement
- Experiment
- EWI-19051
- Empirical Software Engineering
- Software project estimation
- SCS-Services
- IR-75198