Using web objects for development effort estimation of web applications: a replicated study

Authors:
Sergio Di Martino;Filomena Ferrucci;Carmine Gravino;Federica Sarro
Affiliations:
University of Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy;University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy;University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy;University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
Venue:
PROFES'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Product-focused software process improvement
Year:
2011

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Abstract

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.