期刊名称：International Journal of Computer, Information, and Systems Science, and Engineering
印刷版ISSN：1307-2331
出版年度：2007
卷号：1
期号：3
出版社：World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
摘要：Effective evaluation of software development effort is
an important aspect of successful project management. Based on a
large database with 4106 projects ever developed, this study
statistically examines the factors that influence development effort.
The factors found to be significant for effort are project size,
average number of developers that worked on the project, type
of development, development language, development platform,
and the use of rapid application development. Among these
factors, project size is the most critical cost driver.
Unsurprisingly, this study found that the use of CASE tools
does not necessarily reduce development effort, which adds
support to the claim that the use of tools is subtle. As many of
the current estimation models are rarely or unsuccessfully
used, this study proposes a parsimonious parametric model for
the prediction of effort which is both simple and more
accurate than previous models.
关键词：Development effort, function points, team size,
development language, CASE tool, rapid application development.
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