Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering metrics and models
An empirical validation of software cost estimation models
Communications of the ACM
The object-oriented hypermedia design model
Communications of the ACM
Web Modeling Language (WebML): a modeling language for designing Web sites
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
A Function Point-Like Measure for Object-Oriented Software
Empirical Software Engineering
Web Metrics Estimating Design and Authoring Effort
IEEE MultiMedia
Conceptual Modeling of Device-Independent Web Applications
IEEE MultiMedia
Web Development: Estimating Quick-to-Market Software
IEEE Software
From Web Sites to Web Applications: New Issues for Conceptual Modeling
ER '00 Proceedings of the Workshops on Conceptual Modeling Approaches for E-Business and The World Wide Web and Conceptual Modeling: Conceptual Modeling for E-Business and the Web
Function Point Measurement Tool for UML Design Specification
METRICS '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Software Metrics
From Software Metrics to Software Measurement Methods: A Process Model
ISESS '97 Proceedings of the 3rd International Software Engineering Standards Symposium (ISESS '97)
Using Web Objects for Estimating Software Development Effort for Web Applications
METRICS '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Estimating the Development Effort of Web Projects in Chile
LA-WEB '03 Proceedings of the First Conference on Latin American Web Congress
MMWA: A Software Sizing Model for Web Applications
WISE '03 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Further Comparison of Cross-Company and Within-Company Effort Estimation Models for Web Applications
METRICS '04 Proceedings of the Software Metrics, 10th International Symposium
Evaluating a Functional Size Measurement Method for Web Applications: An Empirical Analysis
METRICS '04 Proceedings of the Software Metrics, 10th International Symposium
Estimating the Size of Web Applications by Using a Simplified Function Point Method
LA-WEBMEDIA '04 Proceedings of the WebMedia & LA-Web 2004 Joint Conference 10th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web 2nd Latin American Web Congress
Class Point: An Approach for the Size Estimation of Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Investigating Web size metrics for early Web cost estimation
Journal of Systems and Software
Automating function point analysis with model driven development
CASCON '06 Proceedings of the 2006 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Managing software process measurement: A metamodel-based approach
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Three empirical studies on estimating the design effort of Web applications
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Comparing Size Measures for Predicting Web Application Development Effort: A Case Study
ESEM '07 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Measuring the functional size of web applications
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
Towards interoperable Web engineering methods
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A Case Study Using Web Objects and COSMIC for Effort Estimation of Web Applications
SEAA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 34th Euromicro Conference Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
A family of experiments to evaluate a functional size measurement procedure for Web applications
Journal of Systems and Software
Cost Estimation Techniques for Web Projects
Cost Estimation Techniques for Web Projects
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A COSMIC-FFP approach to predict web application development effort
Journal of Web Engineering
A model-driven measurement procedure for sizing web applications: design, automation and validation
MODELS'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
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Web development is moving towards model-driven processes whose goal is the development of Web applications at a higher level of abstraction based on models and model transformations. This brings new opportunities to the Web project manager to make early estimates of the size and the effort required to produce Web applications based on their conceptual models. In the last few years, several studies for size and effort estimation have been performed. However, there are no studies regarding effort estimation in model-driven Web development. In this paper, we present the validation of a model-based size measure (OO-HFP) for Web effort estimation in the context of a model-driven Web development method. The validation is performed by comparing the prediction accuracy that OO-HFP provides with the accuracy provided by the standard function point analysis (FPA) method. The results of the study (using industrial data gathered from 31 Web projects) show that the effort estimates obtained for projects that are sized using OO-HFP are more accurate than the effort estimates obtained using the standard FPA method. This suggests that by following a model-driven development approach, the size measure obtained at the conceptual model of a Web application can be considered a suitable predictor of effort.