A Revised web objects method to estimate web application development effort

Raffaella Folgieri (), Giulio Barabino, Roberto de Lorenzi, Giulio Concas, Erika Corona, Michele Marchesi and Alberto Segni

Departmental Working Papers from Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Software metrics; Web development; Function Points; Web Objects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-07-08
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