Title :
Web metrics - estimating design and authoring effort
Author :
Mendes, Emilia ; Mosley, Nile ; Counsell, Steve
Author_Institution :
Auckland Univ., New Zealand
Abstract :
Like any software process, Web application development would benefit from early-stage effort estimates. Using an undergraduate university course as a case study, we collected metrics corresponding to Web applications, developers and tools. Then we used those metrics to generate models for predicting design and authoring effort for future Web applications
Keywords :
authoring systems; computer science education; educational courses; information resources; software cost estimation; software metrics; Web application development; Web developers; Web tools; World Wide Web metrics; authoring effort estimation; case study; design effort estimation; models; software process; undergraduate university course; Computer science; Data analysis; Design engineering; HTML; Markup languages; Multimedia systems; Search engines; Web page design; Web pages; Web search;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
