Function point analysis is a well known established method to estimate the size of software systems and software projects. However, because it is based on functional documentation...
We present a quantitative approach for IT portfolio management. This is an approach that CMM level 1 organizations can use to obtain a corporate wide impression of the state of th...
Application Service Maintenance(ASM) projects mainly use Activity-Based software estimation methodology compared to Function Point or Lines of Code Estimation methodologies[1]. Th...
Software developers often duplicate source code to replicate functionality. This practice can hinder the maintenance of a software project: bugs may arise when two identical code ...
This paper addresses the problem of estimating cost and development effort of a system, starting from its complete or partial high-level description. In addition, some modificatio...
William Fornaciari, Fabio Salice, Umberto Bondi, E...