An empirical validation of software cost estimation models
Communications of the ACM
The use of case study data in software management research
Journal of Systems and Software - Software Engineering
Function point analysis
Scale Economies in New Software Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Function Points in the Estimation and Evaluation of the Software Process
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Asset-R: A function point sizing tool for scientific and real-time systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Towards a metrics suite for object oriented design
OOPSLA '91 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Reliability of function points measurement: a field experiment
Communications of the ACM
Software Engineering: A Beginner's Guide
Software Engineering: A Beginner's Guide
Function Point Analysis: Difficulties and Improvements
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Some observations on software quality
ACM-SE 37 Proceedings of the 37th annual Southeast regional conference (CD-ROM)
An activity based costing approach to systems development and implementation
ICIS '98 Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems
Quatitative IT portolio management
Science of Computer Programming
A Formal Definition of Function Points for Automated Measurement of B Specifications
ICFEM '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods: Formal Methods and Software Engineering
IT measurement
Sizing and Estimating the Coding and Unit Testing Effort for GUI Systems
METRICS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Software Metrics: From Measurement to Empirical Results
A Modified Function Point Method for CAL Systems with Respect to Software Cost Estimation
SEEP '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Engineering: Education and Practice (SE:EP '96)
Class Point: An Approach for the Size Estimation of Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Quantitative aspects of outsourcing deals
Science of Computer Programming
Quantifying the value of IT-investments
Science of Computer Programming
Journal of Management Information Systems
Quantifying the effects of IT-governance rules
Science of Computer Programming
Information and Management
Quantifying the yield of risk-bearing IT-portfolios
Science of Computer Programming
Quantifying requirements volatility effects
Science of Computer Programming
Risk analysis in software development
AIC'08 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Applied informatics and communications
Understanding developer and manager perceptions of function points and source lines of code
Journal of Systems and Software
An Experimental Study on the Reliability of COSMIC Measurement Results
IWSM '09 /Mensura '09 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
Component Point: A system-level size measure for Component-Based Software Systems
Journal of Systems and Software
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One measure of the size and complexity of information systems that is growing in acceptance and adoption is function points, a user-oriented, nonsource line of code metric of the systems development product. Previous research has documented the degree of reliability of function points as a metric. This research extends that work by (a) identifying the major sources of variation through a survey of current practice, and (b) estimating the magnitude of the effect of these sources of variation using detailed case study data from commercial systems. The results of this research show that a relatively small number of factors has the greatest potential for affecting reliability, and recommendations are made for using these results to improve the reliability of function point counting in organizations.