Improving the Reliability of Function Point Measurement: An Empirical Study

Forgotten Books, United States, 2015. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 152 mm. Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.Excerpt from Improving the Reliability of Function Point Measurement: An Empirical Study: October 1991 Information Systems development has operated for virtually its entire history without the quantitative measurement capability of other business functional areas such as marketing or manufacturing. Today, managers of Information Systems organizations are increasingly taken to task to measure and report, in quantitative terms, the effectiveness and efficiency of their internal operations. In addition, measurement of information systems development products is also an issue of increasing importance due to the growing costs associated with information systems development and maintenance. One measure of the size and complexity of information systems that is growing in acceptance and adoption is Function Points, a user-oriented non-source line of code metric of the product of systems development. Recent previous research has documented the degree of reliability of Function Points as a metric. This research extends that work by (a) identifying the major sources of variation through a survey of current practice, and (b) estimating the magnitude of the effect of these sources of variation using detailed case study data...