TY - JOUR
T1 - An empirical study of the impact of team size on software development effort
AU - Pendharkar, Parag C.
AU - Rodger, James A.
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Hypothesis five was supported by the results indicating that the interaction between FP and ICASE tools lowers software effort. No support was found for hypothesis six indicating that increasing team size does not lead to higher software effort. The results did not provide any support for hypothesis seven indicating that the interaction between team size and the use of ICASE tools will increase the software effort. The results supported hypothesis eight and did not support hypothesis nine, which indicated that interaction between team size and 4GL reduces software effort and interaction between team size and FP does not lower software effort.
PY - 2007/12
Y1 - 2007/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1007/s10799-006-0005-3
DO - 10.1007/s10799-006-0005-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:36148989647
SN - 1385-951X
VL - 8
SP - 253
EP - 262
JO - Information Technology and Management
JF - Information Technology and Management
IS - 4
ER -