Web Components as a Measure for Estimating Effort and Size of Web Applications

Estimating size and effort is a crucial factor in application development projects and low error margins are a priority. In line with the very fast evolution of Internet technologies, all applications are quickly becoming Web Applications. Thus there is a clear need for an estimation model for these applications' development projects. The objective of this paper is to illustrate a new Web Application cost estimation model that can form the starting point for any development project. The concept of Web components can be well implied to calculate the Web size and effort. In this paper, the authors have taken 10 projects of a software company and have calculated the effort and size using Web components.