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A revised web objects method to estimate web application development effort

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We present a study of the effectiveness of estimating web application development effort using Function Points and Web Objects methods, and a method we propose - the Revised Web Objects (RWO). RWO is an upgrading of WO method, aimed to account for new web development styles and technologies. It also introduces an up-front classification of web applications according to their size, scope and technology, to further refine their effort estimation. These methods were applied to a data-set of 24 projects obtained by Datasiel spa, a mid-sized Italian company, focused on web application projects, showing that RWO performs statistically better than WO, and roughly in the same way as FP.

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      WETSoM '11: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics
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      2. software metrics
      3. web development
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