TY - JOUR
T1 - An empirical study of the Cobb-Douglas production function properties of software development effort
AU - Pendharkar, Parag C.
AU - Rodger, James A.
AU - Subramanian, Girish H.
PY - 2008/11/1
Y1 - 2008/11/1
N2 - In this paper we study whether software development effort exhibits Cobb-Douglas functional form with respect to team size and software size. We empirically test this relationship using real-world software engineering data set containing over 500 software projects. The results of our experiments indicate that the hypothesized Cobb-Douglas function form for software development effort with respect to team size and software size is true. We also find increasing returns to scale relationship between software size and team size with software development effort.
AB - In this paper we study whether software development effort exhibits Cobb-Douglas functional form with respect to team size and software size. We empirically test this relationship using real-world software engineering data set containing over 500 software projects. The results of our experiments indicate that the hypothesized Cobb-Douglas function form for software development effort with respect to team size and software size is true. We also find increasing returns to scale relationship between software size and team size with software development effort.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.10.019
DO - 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.10.019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:51449121471
VL - 50
SP - 1181
EP - 1188
JO - Information and Software Technology
JF - Information and Software Technology
SN - 0950-5849
IS - 12
ER -