An empirical study of the impact of team size on software development effort

被引：40
|
作者：
Pendharkar, Parag C. [1 ]
Rodger, James A. [2 ]
机构：
[1] Penn State Univ, Capital Coll, Sch Business Adm, Middletown, PA 17057 USA
[2] Indiana Univ Penn, Eberly Coll Business & Informat Technol, MIS & Decis Sci, Indiana, PA 15705 USA
来源：
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT | 2007年 / 8卷 / 04期
关键词：
software engineering; cost estimation; CASE tools; programming teams;
D O I：
10.1007/s10799-006-0005-3
中图分类号：
G25 [图书馆学、图书馆事业]; G35 [情报学、情报工作];
学科分类号：
1205 ; 120501 ;
摘要：
In this paper, we investigate the impact of team size on the software development effort. Using field data of over 200 software projects from various industries, we empirically test the impact of team size and other variables-such as software size in function points, ICASE tool and programming language type-on software development effort. Our results indicate that software size in function points significantly impacts the software development effort. The two-way interactions between function points and use of ICASE tool, and function points and language type are significant as well. Additionally, the interactions between team size and programming language type, and team size and use of ICASE tool were all significant.
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页码：253 / 262
页数：10
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