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In the paper we address the problem of estimating the effort required to develop dynamic web applications. In particular, we provide an adaptation of the Cosmic Full Function Point method to be applied on design documents for counting data movements. We also describe the empirical analysis carried out to verify the usefulness of the method for predicting web application development effort.
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Costagliola, G., Ferrucci, F., Gravino, C., Tortora, G., Vitiello, G. (2004). A COSMIC-FFP Based Method to Estimate Web Application Development Effort. In: Koch, N., Fraternali, P., Wirsing, M. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27834-4_20
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