Function Point Estimation Methods: a Comparative Overview

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FUNCTION POINT ESTIMATION METHODS: A COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW Roberto Meli, Luca Santillo Data Processing Organization, E-Mail: - ABSTRACT The appearance of the Function Point technique has allowed the ICT community to increase significantly the practice of software measurement, with respect to the use of the traditional “Lines of Code approach”. A FP count, however, requires a complete and detailed level of descriptive documentation, like the Functional Specifications of the software system under measurement, to be performed.

• software system under measurement
• sum of the quantities of ei
• software application
• standard count
• fp
• parameters
• estimation
• size
• methods
• method