Web complexity factors! A novel approach for predicting size measures for web application development

Effort estimation is critical phase in web application development. Effort estimates are directly influenced by web application size. Accuracy in size creates accuracy in estimate efforts. Web application size is determined by eliciting various web sizing measures and are calculated as web size metrics like LOC, FP, WO, etc. Web size metrics are actually obtained by aggregating quantitate and qualitative behaviour of functional and dimensional size measurements. There is no standard approach that can guide through proper elicitation, elaboration and selection of size measures for web application development. This study attempts to propose new size measurement approach, the Web Complexity Factor (WCF) to obtain size measures for web application. WCF has five measuring factors. WCF is first and primary component to develop effort estimation model for web effort estimation.