Object oriented design function points

Author

Ram, D. Janaki ; Raju, S.V.G.K.

Author_Institution

Distributed & Object Syst. Lab., Indian Inst. of Technol., Madras, India

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

121

Lastpage

126

Abstract

Estimating different characteristics viz., size, cost, etc. of software during different phases of software development is required to manage the resources effectively. Function points measure can be used as an input to estimate these characteristics of software. The Traditional Function Point Counting Procedure (TFPCP) can not be used to measure the functionality of an Object Oriented (OO) system. This paper suggests a counting procedure to measure the functionality of an OO system during the design phase from a designers´ perspective. It is adapted from the TFPCP. The main aim of this paper is to use all the available information during the OO design phase to estimate Object Oriented Design Function Points (OODFP). The novel feature of this approach is that it considers all the basic concepts of OO systems such as inheritance, aggregation, association and polymorphism

Keywords

inheritance; object-oriented programming; software cost estimation; aggregation; association; function points measure; inheritance; object oriented design function points; polymorphism; software development; traditional function point counting procedure; Costs; Lab-on-a-chip; Phase estimation; Phase measurement; Programming; Project management; Resource management; Software development management; Software measurement; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality Software, 2000. Proceedings. First Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0825-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APAQ.2000.883785

Filename

883785