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Using Web Objects for Development Effort Estimation of Web Applications: A Replicated Study

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2011)

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The spreading of Web applications has motivated the definition of size measures suitable for such kind of software systems. Among the proposals existing in the literature, Web Objects were conceived by Reifer specifically for Web applications as an extension of Function Points. In this paper we report on an empirical analysis we performed exploiting 25 Web applications developed by an Italian software company. The results confirm the ones obtained in a previous study and extend them in several aspects, showing the robustness of the measure with respect to the size and technologies of the applications, and to the employed estimation techniques.

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  1. University of Napoli “Federico II”, 80126, Napoli, Italy

    Sergio Di Martino

  2. University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084, Fisciano, SA, Italy

    Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino & Federica Sarro

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy

    Danilo Caivano , Maria Teresa Baldassarre  & Giuseppe Visaggio ,  & 

  2. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014, Oulu, Finland

    Markku Oivo

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Di Martino, S., Ferrucci, F., Gravino, C., Sarro, F. (2011). Using Web Objects for Development Effort Estimation of Web Applications: A Replicated Study. In: Caivano, D., Oivo, M., Baldassarre, M.T., Visaggio, G. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6759. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21843-9_16

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