Improved standard FPA method-resolving problems with upper boundaries in the rating complexity process

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 81-90

  Kralj, Tomaž ^a   Rozman, Ivan ^b   Heričko, Marjan ^b   Živkovič, Aleš ^b  

^a Tax Admin of the Rep of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

FPA; Functional size; Software metric

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STANDARDS;

DATA ELEMENT TYPES (DET); FUNCTION POINT ANALYSIS (FPA); FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXITY; FUNCTIONAL SIZE;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 18144375951     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2004.12.012     Document Type: Article

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