An empirical analysis on distribution patterns of software maintenance effort

Distribution of effort in software engineering process has been the basis for facilitating more reasonable software project planning. This paper reports empirical results on activity effort distribution patterns of a series of industrial software maintenance projects. The results show that with respect to different influencing factors, the projects demonstrate large variations in their activity effort distribution, which necessitates appropriate adjustments to strategic planning.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICSM
• Authors: Ye Yang, Qi Li, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang
• Keywords: Activity Effort Distribution, Effort Distribution Patterns, ICSM 2008, Reasonable Software Project, Software Engineering