Can function points be mapped to object points?
Joint Authors
Isa, Ayman
Awdah, Muhammad
Coward, David
Source
The International Arab Journal of Information Technology
Issue
Vol. 4, Issue 1 (31 Jan. 2007), pp.41-49, 9 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2007-01-31
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Object points is a new software size metric that has emerged to cope with recent developments in software engineering, and to overcome the deficiencies of the traditional lines of code and function points size metrics Moreover, object points has been utilized as the basis for several software cost estimation models with promising improvements in the accuracy of estimates.
However, the infancy of the object points size metric means that there is a shortage of object points based software historical projects, on which to base the empirical validation of the new object points based software cost estimation models.
Hence, the relationship between the extensively used function points and newly invented object points size metrics have been conceptualized and utilized in a novel forward approach to convert the function points projects data into their equivalent object points data.
Empirical investigations of 66 function points projects have shown high correlation and significance, 88% and 0.33, respectively, between the resulting object points effort estimates and the actual function points effort.
Furthermore, the resulting object points data have been utilized to model the embodied function points-object points relationship in two specialized productivity factors and function points type dependent linear models.
The resulting models have shown high fitness, R2, values of 0.95, for both models.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Isa, Ayman& Awdah, Muhammad& Coward, David. 2007. Can function points be mapped to object points?. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology،Vol. 4, no. 1, pp.41-49.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-11596
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Coward, David…[et al.]. Can function points be mapped to object points?. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology Vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan. 2007), pp.41-49.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-11596
American Medical Association (AMA)
Isa, Ayman& Awdah, Muhammad& Coward, David. Can function points be mapped to object points?. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology. 2007. Vol. 4, no. 1, pp.41-49.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-11596
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
includes bibliographical references : p. 48
Record ID
BIM-11596