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What is Function Points

Chapter 59
Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology
An estimation method used to assess the human effort required for software development, which was first introduced in 1979. Method objective is to assess the software system’s size while using the user’s requirements without direct dependence on the technological realization. It is calculated in three steps using the quantity and complexity of the functional components and the system attributes.
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Integrating Software Engineering and Costing Aspects within Project Management Tools
Roy Gelbard (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Jeffrey Kantor (Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and University of Windsor, Canada), and Liran Edelist (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch059
Abstract
This study proposes and prototypes a model that integrates these three aspects of software projects by automatically mapping SE objects and accounting–costing objects into PM objects. To validate the feasibility of the model and without loss of generality, it is demonstrated using former research platform focused on conversion of data flow diagrams (DFD), which are actually full enterprise set of use cases diagrams reflecting entire system-software project into Gantt charts.
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