An introduction to 3D function points
Software Development
The Optimal Class Size for Object-Oriented Software
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Definition and Experimental Evaluation of Function Points for Object-Oriented Systems
METRICS '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Mapping the OO-Jacobson Approach into Function Point Analysis
TOOLS '97 Proceedings of the Tools-23: Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
Class Point: An Approach for the Size Estimation of Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Communications of the ACM - Two decades of the language-action perspective
An experimental investigation of UML modeling conventions
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
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The knowledge of size of models can be very useful to perform many kinds of estimations such as effort, cost, and productivity in software development. However, to the best of our knowledge there is no universally accepted model size measure available to date. In this paper we investigate the usefulness of class-count as a size measure of models (represented with the UML). Using empirical data collected from two student experiments we validate this measure by assessing its correlation with effort spent in modeling. The results show that merely using class-count might not provide sufficient and accurate estimation of modeling effort. Furthermore, we identify some factors that hinder class-count as a good estimate of modeling effort.