Integrating hundred's of products through one architecture: the industrial IT architecture
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
A Review of Experimental Investigations into Object-Oriented Technology
Empirical Software Engineering
Quality, Productivity, and Learning in Framework-Based Development: An Exploratory Case Study
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
A controlled experiment in assessing and estimating software maintenance tasks
Information and Software Technology
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It has for a long time been claimed that object-oriented framework technology delivers reduced application development efforts but no quantitative evidence has been shown. In this study we present quantitative data from a six year object-oriented application framework project in the telecommunication domain. During six years four major versions of the application framework have been developed and over 30 installations at customer sites has been done. We present effort data both for the framework development and the installations as well as relative effort per phase for the framework versions. The effort data presented gives quantitative support for the claim that framework technology delivers reduced application development efforts. In fact, the effort data shows that the average application development effort is less than 2% of the framework development effort.