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Proceedings. 2004 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, 2004. ISESE '04.

DOI: 10.1109/isese.2004.1334906

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Assessing the reproducibility and accuracy of functional size measurement methods through experimentation

Proceedings article published in 2004 by S. Abrahao ORCID, Geert Poels, O. Pastor
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Abstract

A number of functional size measurement (FSM) methods have been proposed in the literature, but so far there has been little systematic evaluation of these methods. This paper describes a controlled experiment which compares function point analysis, a standard FSM method supported by the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG FPA) and OO-method function points (OOmFP), a recently proposed FSM method for sizing object-oriented software systems that are developed using the OO-Method approach. The goal is to investigate whether OOmFP results in better size assessments within the context of an OO-Method development process. The methods are compared using two criteria defined in the ISO 14143-3: reproducibility and accuracy. The results show that, within its context, OOmFP is more consistent and accurate than IFPUG FPA.