Function point measurement from Java programs
Proceedings of the 24th 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
Functional size measurement revisited
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
A new calibration for Function Point complexity weights
Information and Software Technology
Evaluation of preliminary data analysis framework in software cost estimation based on ISBSG R9 Data
Software Quality Control
Transactions and paths: Two use case based metrics which improve the early effort estimation
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Automated software size estimation based on function points using UML models
Information and Software Technology
Simplifying effort estimation based on Use Case Points
Information and Software Technology
Towards a simplified definition of Function Points
Information and Software Technology
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Researchers and practitioners have noted correlations between the five types of elements in function point analysis. Practitioners exploit them; researchers have raised concerns about them. Two previous studies of the correlations between the elements have agreed in some findings, but differed on others. A large data set is analyzed here to gain further insight into the correlations.Two elements (inputs and logical files) are found to be correlated always, and one element (external files) is found to be generally uncorrelated with the others. Correlations are strongest in new development projects that use 4GLs. These results confirm some findings of previous researchers, and suggest explanations for differences between previous findings.