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An empirical validation of software cost estimation models
Communications of the ACM
Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering productivity models for management information system development
Critical issues in information systems research
Software complexity and maintainability
ICIS '89 Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information Systems
Some basic determinants of computer programming productivity
Communications of the ACM
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Function Point Analysis: Difficulties and Improvements
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A meta-model for software development resource expenditures
ICSE '81 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Software engineering
Software cost estimating: craft or witchcraft
ACM SIGMIS Database
Principles of Program Design
Structured Analysis and System Specification
Structured Analysis and System Specification
The Cost of Developing Large-Scale Software
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A General Empirical Solution to the Macro Software Sizing and Estimating Problem
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Factors affecting information system volatility
ICIS '00 Proceedings of the twenty first international conference on Information systems
A model of factors affecting an information system's change in state
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Sizing and Estimating the Coding and Unit Testing Effort for GUI Systems
METRICS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Software Metrics: From Measurement to Empirical Results
Project estimation using Screenflow Engineering
SEEP '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Engineering: Education and Practice (SE:EP '96)
A Probabilistic Model for Predicting Software Development Effort
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Journal of Management Information Systems
An empirical study of the impact of team size on software development effort
Information Technology and Management
Probabilistic estimation of software size and effort
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Probabilistic and analytical estimation of software development team size
International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems
A distributed problem-solving framework for probabilistic software effort estimation
Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering
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Management of the software development process requires a thorough understanding of the environment in which development takes place. Ability to estimate, plan, and manage resource consumption is limited by the central problem of determining the size of system specifications. To address this issue, a general strategy for measurement and evaluation of system development environments needs to be established. This article presents a research model that will help managers and researchers understand and establish the linkages between units of systems requirements specification, design, and source code. Initial validation of the model was performed by reverse engineering systems written in a fourth generation language from source code to design metrics. Results indicate that the model may provide reliable measures of system size in terms of both design metrics and lines of code.