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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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Di Martino, S., Ferrucci, F., Gravino, C. (2009). An Empirical Study on the Use of Web-COBRA and Web Objects to Estimate Web Application Development Effort. In: Gaedke, M., Grossniklaus, M., Díaz, O. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5648. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02818-2_17
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