The impact on software development costs of using HOL's
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An empirical validation of software cost estimation models
Communications of the ACM
An Evaluation of Expert Systems for Software Engineering Management
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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
Software complexity: measures and methods
Software complexity: measures and methods
Software engineering with formal metrics
Software engineering with formal metrics
Rigor in software complexity measurement experimentation
Journal of Systems and Software
Software complexity and maintenance costs
Communications of the ACM
Function points: a study of their measurement processes and scale transformations
Journal of Systems and Software
Robust regression for developing software estimation models
Journal of Systems and Software
Inter-item correlations among function points
ICSE '93 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Software Engineering
Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach
Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach
Function Point Analysis: Difficulties and Improvements
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Development Cost Estimation Using Function Points
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
How to achieve 7.52 function-points per person-day with object technology
Addendum to the 1997 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (Addendum)
Measuring reuse of SAP requirements: a model-based approach
SSR '99 Proceedings of the 1999 symposium on Software reusability
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Function point measurement from Java programs
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
A Simulation Tool for Efficient Analogy Based Cost Estimation
Empirical Software Engineering
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Extraction of Function-Points from Source-Code
IWSM '00 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on New Approaches in Software Measurement
A Study of Productivity and Efficiency for Object-Oriented Methods and Languages
APSEC '99 Proceedings of the Sixth Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference
The adjusted analogy-based software effort estimation based on similarity distances
Journal of Systems and Software
Software project economics: a roadmap
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
Improving analogy-based software cost estimation by a resampling method
Information and Software Technology
Comparing cost prediction models by resampling techniques
Journal of Systems and Software
Measuring the functional size of web applications
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
Functional size measurement revisited
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
A new calibration for Function Point complexity weights
Information and Software Technology
Software development cost estimation using wavelet neural networks
Journal of Systems and Software
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Calibrated estimation model for a maintenance project
SEA '07 Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
IWSM '09 /Mensura '09 Proceedings of the International Conferences on Software Process and Product Measurement
An exploratory study on the accuracy of FPA to COSMIC measurement method conversion types
Information and Software Technology
Alternative methods using similarities in software effort estimation
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering
Towards a simplified definition of Function Points
Information and Software Technology
A PSO-based model to increase the accuracy of software development effort estimation
Software Quality Control
Information and Software Technology
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Function point analysis (FPA) was initially designed on the basis of expert judgments, without explicit reference to any theoretical foundation. From the point of view of the measurement scales used in its measurement process, FPA constitutes a pot-pourri of scales not admissible without the transformations imbedded in the implicit models of expert judgments. The results of this empirical study demonstrate that in a homogeneous environment not burdened with major differences in productivity factors there is a clear relationship between FPA' primary components and Work-Effort. This empirical study also indicates that there is such a relationship for each step of the FPA measurement process prior to the mixing of scales and the assignments of weights. Comparisons with FPA productivity models based on weights confirm, on the one hand, that the weights do not add information and, on the other, that the weights are fairly robust and can be used when little historical data is available. The full data set is provided for future studies.