Database models and managerial institution: 50% model + 50% manager
Management Science
Object-oriented software engineering
Object-oriented software engineering
Reliability of function points measurement: a field experiment
Communications of the ACM
Applying use cases: a practical guide
Applying use cases: a practical guide
Software size measurement and productivity rating in a large-scale software development department
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Use cases: requirements in context
Use cases: requirements in context
Writing Effective Use Cases
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Software process improvement and human judgement heuristics
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
A Comparison of Function Point Counting Techniques
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Quality and Understandability of Use Case Models
ECOOP '01 Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Mapping the OO-Jacobson Approach into Function Point Analysis
TOOLS '97 Proceedings of the Tools-23: Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
From use cases to system operation specifications
UML'00 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on The unified modeling language: advancing the standard
Towards an inspection technique for use case models
SEKE '02 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering
Quality and Understandability of Use Case Models
ECOOP '01 Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Improving Estimation Practices by Applying Use Case Models
PROFES '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
Effort estimation of use cases for incremental large-scale software development
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Quantitative assessment of UML dynamic models
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
Empirical Software Engineering
An investigation of use case quality in a large safety-critical software development project
Information and Software Technology
A mathematical reusability model for quantifying the reduction in development effort
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Introducing the evaluation of complexity in functional size measurement: a UML-based approach
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
The role of the measure of functional complexity in effort estimation
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
Reliability of transaction identification in use cases
Proceedings of the Workshop on Advances in Functional Size Measurement and Effort Estimation
Simplifying effort estimation based on Use Case Points
Information and Software Technology
Conceptual scheduling model and optimized release scheduling for agile environments
Information and Software Technology
Improving the reliability of transaction identification in use cases
Information and Software Technology
Use case modeling and refinement: a quality-based approach
ER'06 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
Towards an early software estimation using log-linear regression and a multilayer perceptron model
Journal of Systems and Software
Value estimation of the use case parameters using SOM and fuzzy rules
Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
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Use case models are used in object-oriented analysis for capturing and describing the functional requirements of a system. Several methods for estimating software development effort are based on attributes of a use case model. This paper reports the results of three industrial case studies on the application of a method for effort estimation based on use case points. The aim of this paper is to provide guidance for other organizations that want to improve their estimation process applying use cases. Our results support existing claims that use cases can be used successfully in estimating software development effort. The results indicate that the guidance provided by the use case points method can support expert knowledge in the estimation process. Our experience is also that the design of the use case models has a strong impact on the estimates.