Function point-like measure for object-oriented software

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 263-287

  Antoniol, Giuliano ^a,e   Lokan, Chris ^b   Caldiera, Gianluigi ^c   Fiutem, Roberto ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c PricewaterhouseCoopers USA   (United States)

^d Sodalia SpA   (Italy)

^e INFN TIFPA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

OBJECT ORIENTED FUNCTION POINTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033185465     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009834811663     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Albrecht, A., and Gaffney, J. 1983. Software function, source lines of code and development effort prediction: a Software Science validation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 9(6): 639-648.
2. Booch, G. 1991. Object-Oriented Design with Applications. Benjamin-Cummings.
3. Card, D., and Glass, R. 1990. Measuring Software Design Quality. Prentice-Hall.
4. DeMarco, T. 1982. Controlling Software Projects. Yourdon Press.
5. Efron, B., and Tibshirani, R. 1993. An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Chapman & Hall.
6. Fetcke, T., Abran, A., and Nguyen, T.-H. 1997. Mapping the OO-Jacobson approach to function point analysis. Proc. IFPUG 1997 Spring Conference, IFPUG, 134-142.
7. Gamma, E., Helm, R., Johnson, R., and Vlissides, J. 1995. Design Patterns: Elements ofReusable Object Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley.
8. Härdle, W. 1990. Applied Nonparametric Regression, Vol. 19 of Econometric Society Monographs, Cambridge University Press.
9. IFPUG. 1994. Function Point Counting Practices Manual, Release 4.0. International Function Point Users Group, Westerville, Ohio.
10. IFPUG. 1995. Function Point Counting Practices: Case Study 3 - Object-Oriented Analysis, Object-Oriented Design (Draft), International Function Point Users Group, Westerville, Ohio.
11. Interactive Development Environments. 1996. Software Through Pictures Manuals.
12. Jacobson, I., Christerson, M., Jonsson, P., and Övergaard, G. 1992. Object Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach. Addison-Wesley.
13. th European Software Control and Metrics Conference, Berlin.
14. Minkiewicz, A. 1997. Measuring object-oriented software with predictive object points. Proc. ASM'97 -Applications in Software Measurement, Atlanta.
15. Rational Software Corporation. 1997a. Rational Rose/C++ Manuals, Version 4.0.
16. Rational Software Corporation. 1997b. Unified Modeling Language, Version 1.1.
17. Reasoning Systems. 1990. Refine User's Guide.
18. Rumbaugh, J., Blaha, M., Premerlani, W., Eddy, F., and Lorensen, W 1991. Object-Oriented Modeling and Design. Prentice-Hall.
19. nd Australian Conference on Software Metrics, Australian Software Metrics Association, 83-93.
20. Sneed, H. 1995. Estimating the costs of object-oriented software. Proc. of Software Cost Estimation Seminar, Systems Engineering Ltd., Durham, UK.
21. Stone, M. 1974. Cross-validatory choice and assessment of statistical predictions (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B 36: 111-147.
22. Venables, W., and Ripley, B. 1994. Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus. Second end. New York: Springer-Verlag.
23. Vicinanza, S., Mukhopadhyay, T., and Prietula, M. 1991. Software-effort estimation: an exploratory study of expert performance. Information Systems Research 2(4): 243-262.
24. Whitmire, S. 1993. Applying function points to object oriented software. Software Engineering Productivity Handbook (J. Keyes, ed.) McGraw-Hill, 229-244.