TY - GEN
T1 - OPA for sizing the object-oriented software applications
AU - Liou, Jing Chiou
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Among all kinds of measures, software size serves as a basis for other measures and plays a major role in better understanding the software project. For software size measuring, there are some methodologies reported in the literatures. These methodologies can be either simply counting the source lines of code (SLOC) or using metric methodology. The Function Point Analysis (FPA) is by far the most popular methodology for sizing software in industry. However, when applying the IFPUG standard to count the Object-Oriented software application, the resulting function points are insignificant or inaccurately low. In this paper, we present a methodology, called Object Point Analysis (OPA), for counting the object points for the Object-Oriented software application. The OPA has been used by some software projects for more than six years. The positive results received from these projects provide a preliminary study on sizing of OO software application. Comparing to the FPA, the OPA not only produces a more accurate size measurement for OO software applications, but also provides a means for sizing automation, which reduces the human errors often found in FPA.
AB - Among all kinds of measures, software size serves as a basis for other measures and plays a major role in better understanding the software project. For software size measuring, there are some methodologies reported in the literatures. These methodologies can be either simply counting the source lines of code (SLOC) or using metric methodology. The Function Point Analysis (FPA) is by far the most popular methodology for sizing software in industry. However, when applying the IFPUG standard to count the Object-Oriented software application, the resulting function points are insignificant or inaccurately low. In this paper, we present a methodology, called Object Point Analysis (OPA), for counting the object points for the Object-Oriented software application. The OPA has been used by some software projects for more than six years. The positive results received from these projects provide a preliminary study on sizing of OO software application. Comparing to the FPA, the OPA not only produces a more accurate size measurement for OO software applications, but also provides a means for sizing automation, which reduces the human errors often found in FPA.
KW - Estimation
KW - Project management
KW - Software metrics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=1542748714&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:1542748714
SN - 0889863946
T3 - Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
SP - 290
EP - 294
BT - Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
A2 - Hamza, M.H.
T2 - Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
Y2 - 3 November 2003 through 5 November 2003
ER -