Asset-R: A function point sizing tool for scientific and real-time systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Applied software measurement: assuring productivity and quality
Applied software measurement: assuring productivity and quality
Software Effort Models for Early Estimation of Process Control Applications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An introduction to 3D function points
Software Development
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
A Function Point-Like Measure for Object-Oriented Software
Empirical Software Engineering
Function Point Analysis: Difficulties and Improvements
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Class Point: An Approach for the Size Estimation of Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management
Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management
Model-based functional size measurement
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Introducing the evaluation of complexity in functional size measurement: a UML-based approach
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
An exploratory study on the accuracy of FPA to COSMIC measurement method conversion types
Information and Software Technology
A proposal for simplified model-based cost estimation models
PROFES'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Formal specifications better than function points for code sizing
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
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The developers of real-time and embedded software face — just like the developers of other types of software — the problem of estimating the cost of development. To this end, the most widely used methods and tools require that the functional size of the program to be developed is measured. However, the functional size measurement methods available — namely, Function Point Analysis and its evolutions — are traditionally considered not well suited for representing the functionality of real-time and embedded software. Actually, the problem is that the definition of Function Points and their counting rules make reference almost exclusively to traditional “business” software. In this paper, the problem of applying FPA to embedded and real-time software is tackled. A set of hints and examples — derived from industrial experience — are given, supporting the application of standard function point counting to real-time and embedded software. It is then shown that the obtained measures successfully supported the estimation of a set of programs in the avionics domain.