Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering metrics and models
The Detection of Fault-Prone Programs
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Effort estimation using analogy
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
A Validation of Object-Oriented Design Metrics as Quality Indicators
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Estimating Software Project Effort Using Analogies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Procedure for Analyzing Unbalanced Datasets
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An assessment and comparison of common software cost estimation modeling techniques
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Building Knowledge through Families of Experiments
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Controlled Experiment to Assess the Benefits of Estimating with Analogy and Regression Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Building Web applications with UML
Building Web applications with UML
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
Empirical studies of software engineering: a roadmap
Proceedings of the Conference on The Future of Software Engineering
Modeling Development Effort in Object-Oriented Systems Using Design Properties
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special section on the seventh international software metrics symposium
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
An Empirical Study of Analogy-based Software Effort Estimation
Empirical Software Engineering
Web Metrics Estimating Design and Authoring Effort
IEEE MultiMedia
Case Studies for Method and Tool Evaluation
IEEE Software
Web Development: Estimating Quick-to-Market Software
IEEE Software
Quality, Productivity, and Learning in Framework-Based Development: An Exploratory Case Study
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Preliminary guidelines for empirical research in software engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Further Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between MRE and Project Size
Empirical Software Engineering
A Comparative Study of Cost Estimation Models for Web Hypermedia Applications
Empirical Software Engineering
Cost estimation for web applications
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Measuring Functionality and Productivity in Web-Based Applications: A Case Study
METRICS '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Using Simulation to Evaluate Prediction Techniques
METRICS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Software Metrics
A Primer on Object-Oriented Measurement
METRICS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Software Metrics
ISESE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
A Replicated Assessment of the Use of Adaptation Rules to Improve Web Cost Estimation
ISESE '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
Estimating the Design Effort of Web Applications
METRICS '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Using Web Objects for Estimating Software Development Effort for Web Applications
METRICS '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Early Web Size Measures and Effort Prediction for Web Costimation
METRICS '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Software Metrics
METRICS '04 Proceedings of the Software Metrics, 10th International Symposium
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
Resource Estimation for Web Applications
METRICS '04 Proceedings of the Software Metrics, 10th International Symposium
An Empirical Investigation of the Key Factors for Success in Software Process Improvement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Effort estimation modeling techniques: a case study for web applications
ICWE '06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Web engineering
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Systematic review: A systematic review of effect size in software engineering experiments
Information and Software Technology
Measuring the functional size of web applications
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
Towards a taxonomy of hypermedia and web application size metrics
ICWE'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Web Engineering
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Effort estimation is a key management activity which goes on throughout a software project being fundamental for accurate project planning and for allocating resources adequately. Thus, it is important to identify techniques and measures that can support such project management activity during the development of Web applications. To this aim, empirical investigations should be performed using data coming from the industrial world. To address this issue, this paper reports on an empirical study based on data from 15 Web applications developed by an Italian software company. The objective of the study was two-fold. The first goal was to verify whether or not some size measures were good indicators of the effort spent to develop the Web applications taken into account. The second goal was to compare the effectiveness of some techniques to establish the relationships between the employed size measures and the development effort of the Web applications. The measures were organized in two sets, where the first one included some length measures while the second one consisted of the nine components which are used to estimate the Web Objects measure. The techniques taken into account were Stepwise Regression, Case-Based Reasoning, and Regression Tree. The results indicated that both the sets of size measures were good indicators of the effort for the analyzed dataset. Furthermore, the analysis also revealed that the first set presented significantly superior performance than the second set when using Stepwise Regression. No significant differences between the two sets of size measures were highlighted when using Case-Based Reasoning and Regression Tree.