An Empirical Study on the Use of Web-COBRA and Web Objects to Estimate Web Application Development Effort

We have performed a replication of a previous study in order to further assess the effectiveness of Web-COBRA method, with the Web Objects measure, in predicting Web application development effort. The results of the empirical analysis confirm the interesting results of the previous study.

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