Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering metrics and models
An empirical validation of software cost estimation models
Communications of the ACM
Function Points in the Estimation and Evaluation of the Software Process
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Calibrating estimation tools for software development
Software Engineering Journal
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Function Point Analysis: Difficulties and Improvements
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Estimating Software Project Effort Using Analogies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Experience Using Web-Based Shotgun Measures for Large-System Characterization and Improvement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Counterpoint: The Problem with Function Points
IEEE Software
Software Measurement: A Necessary Scientific Basis
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Causal Model for Software Cost Estimating Error
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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
Estimating Software Development Effort Based on Use Cases-Experiences from Industry
«UML» '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on The Unified Modeling Language, Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools
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
AI Tools for Software Development Effort Estimation
SEEP '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Engineering: Education and Practice (SE:EP '96)
Making Resource Decisions for Software Projects
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Class Point: An Approach for the Size Estimation of Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Estimating LOC for information systems from their conceptual data models
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
A formal representation of functional size measurement methods
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Selected papers from the 4th source code analysis and manipulation (SCAM 2004) workshop
Software project economics: a roadmap
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
Information and Management
Quantifying requirements volatility effects
Science of Computer Programming
A priori implementation effort estimation for hardware design based on independent path analysis
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems - Operating System Support for Embedded Real-Time Applications
Conceptual data model-based software size estimation for information systems
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Code-based analysis of the development effort of a large scale courseware project
Information and Software Technology
Automated software size estimation based on function points using UML models
Information and Software Technology
Component Point: A system-level size measure for Component-Based Software Systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Simplifying effort estimation based on Use Case Points
Information and Software Technology
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
An evaluation of function point counting based on measurement-oriented models
EASE'08 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Towards a simplified definition of Function Points
Information and Software Technology
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Effective management of the software development process requires that management be able to estimate total development effort and cost. One of the fundamental problems associated with effort and cost estimation is the a priori estimation of software size. Function point analysis has emerged over the last decade as a popular tool for this task. Criticisms of the method that relate to the way in which function counts are calculated and the impact of the processing complexity adjustment on the function point count have arisen. SPQR/20 function points among others are claimed to overcome some of these criticisms. The SPQR/20 function point method is compared to traditional function point analysis as a measure of software size in an empirical study of MIS environments. In a study of 64 projects in one organization it was found that both methods would appear equally satisfactory. However consistent use of one method should occur since the individual counts differ considerably.