Web Productivity Measurement and Benchmarking

Project managers use software productivity measures to assess software development efficiency. Productivity is commonly measured as the ratio of output to input. Within the context of software development, output is often assumed to be product size and input to be effort. However, Web applications are often characterised using several different size measures and there is no standard model for aggregating those measures into a single size measure. This makes it difficult to measure Web application productivity.

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