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dc.creatorQuesada López, Christian Ulises
dc.creatorJenkins Coronas, Marcelo
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-14T20:28:15Z
dc.date.available2019-05-14T20:28:15Z
dc.date.issued2015-04
dc.identifier.citationhttp://www.proceedings.com/26324.html
dc.identifier.isbn9781510803879
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10669/77113
dc.description.abstractBackground: The complexity of providing accurate software size estimation and effort prediction models is well known in the software industry. Function point analysis (FPA) is currently one of the most accepted software functional size metric in the industry, but it is hardly automatable and generally requires a lengthy and costly process. Objectives: This paper reports on a family of replications carried out on a subset of the ISBSG R12 dataset to evaluate the structure and applicability of function points. The goal of this replication was to aggregate evidence about internal issues of FPA as a metric, and to confirm previous results using a different set of data. First, FPA counting was analyzed in order to determine the extent to which the base functional components (BFC) were independent of each other and thus appropriate for an additive model of size. Second, the correlation between effort and BFCs and unadjusted function points (UFP) were assessed in order to determine whether a simplified sizing metric might be appropriate to simplify effort prediction models. Methods: A subset of 72 business application projects from 2008 to 2011 was analyzed. BFCs, UFP, and effort correlation were studied. Results: The results aggregated evidence and confirmed that some BFCs of the FPA method are correlated. There is a relationship between BFCs and effort. There are correlations between UFP and inputs, enquiries, and internal files, and between BFCs and effort. Internal files and inputs are found to be correlated always, and external interface files are found to be uncorrelated with the others. A prediction model based on transactions and internal files appear to be as good as a model based on UFP. The use of some contexts attributes may improve effort prediction models. Limitations: This is an initial experiment of a research in progress. The limited size and nature of the dataset may influence the results. Conclusions: Our results might suggest an improvement in the performance of the measurement process. Simplifying FPA measurement procedure based on counting a subset of BFCs could improve measurement process efficiency and simplify prediction models.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Telecomunicaciones/[]/MICITT/Costa Ricaes_ES
dc.language.isoen_USes_ES
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.sourceXVIII Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering, Lima, Peru: Curran Associates, Inc.es_ES
dc.subjectFunction point Analysises_ES
dc.subjectEffort predictiones_ES
dc.subjectFamily of replicationses_ES
dc.subjectExperimentes_ES
dc.titleAn Empirical Validation of Function Point Structure and Applicability: A Replication Studyes_ES
dc.typecontribución de congreso
dc.description.procedenceUCR::Vicerrectoría de Docencia::Ingeniería::Facultad de Ingeniería::Escuela de Ciencias de la Computación e Informáticaes_ES
dc.description.procedenceUCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ingeniería::Centro de Investigaciones en Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (CITIC)es_ES


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