Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering metrics and models
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
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
Web Metrics Estimating Design and Authoring Effort
IEEE MultiMedia
Web Development: Estimating Quick-to-Market Software
IEEE Software
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
A Comparison of Development Effort Estimation Techniques for Web Hypermedia Applications
METRICS '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Software Metrics
ISESE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
Estimating the Design Effort of Web Applications
METRICS '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Software Metrics
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
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
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Feature weighting heuristics for analogy-based effort estimation models
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
ICWE '9 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Engineering
Applying support vector regression for web effort estimation using a cross-company dataset
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Using Support Vector Regression for Web Development Effort Estimation
IWSM '09 /Mensura '09 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
The use of a Bayesian network for web effort estimation
ICWE'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web engineering
A replicated study comparing web effort estimation techniques
WISE'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Web information systems engineering
How effective is Tabu search to configure support vector regression for effort estimation?
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
Investigating the use of Support Vector Regression for web effort estimation
Empirical Software Engineering
Using web objects for development effort estimation of web applications: a replicated study
PROFES'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Product-focused software process improvement
Systematic literature review of machine learning based software development effort estimation models
Information and Software Technology
Building an expert-based web effort estimation model using bayesian networks
EASE'09 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Predicting web development effort using a bayesian network
EASE'07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
The role of systematic reviews in identifying the state of the art in web resource estimation
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Evidential assessment of software technologies
Realising web effort estimation: a qualitative investigation
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
A grammatical evolution approach for software effort estimation
Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
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A reliable effort estimation is crucial for a successful web application development planning. Several approaches exist to address this issue. Among them, the algorithmic approach is one of the most widely used and investigated methods. It is based on suitable effort prediction models which relate the development effort with project characteristics. The size represents one of the most interesting characteristics of software products and several measures can be defined in order to estimate the size of web systems. Moreover, several techniques have been proposed in the literature to build the effort prediction models. Thus, of special interest should be to establish the most effective size measures to be employed in effort prediction models and the most suitable techniques for the model construction. To this aim some empirical studies have been undertaken so far. Since it is widely recognized that several investigations should be performed to verify/confirm empirical results, in the paper we will report on an empirical analysis we have carried out by exploiting data coming from 15 web projects developed by a software company. In particular, for the analysis we have considered two sets of size measures: Length Measures (e.g. number of pages, number of medias, number of client and server side scripts) and Functional Measures (e.g. external input, external output, external query). Moreover, we have employed different techniques, such as Linear Regression, Regression Tree, and Analogy-Based Estimation, in order to determine the one that provides the best prediction.