Formalization Studies in Functional Size Measurement: How Do They Help?

Authors:
Baris Ozkan;Onur Demirors
Affiliations:
Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey 06531;Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey 06531
Venue:
IWSM '09 /Mensura '09 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Functional size has been favored as a software characteristic that can be measured early and independent of language, tools, techniques and technology; hence has many uses in software project management. It has been about three decades since Albrecht introduced the concept of functional size. However, Functional Size Measurement (FSM) has not been a common practice in the software community. The problems with FSM method structures and practices have been discussed to be the major factors to explain this situation. In this paper, we make a review of formalization proposals to the problems in Functional Size Measurement (FSM). We analyze the works included in the papers and we explore the extent of their contributions.