An Empirical Comparison of Function Points and Web Objects

Author

Barabino, Giulio ; Porruvecchio, Guido ; Concas, Giulio ; Marchesi, Michele ; De Lorenzi, Roberto ; Giaccardi, Mauro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biophys. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Genova, Genoa, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper compares the effectiveness of Function Points and Web Object analysis to estimate the development effort of Web applications. The empirical study is performed on a set of industrial projects carried on in an Italian software company. Starting from original requirements and estimates, carried on using FP analysis, we compute the Web Objects analysis of the same requirements, and compare the results of the two approaches. We also assess the relative effectiveness of FP and WO using post-mortem data about the actual effort taken to develop the studied systems.

Keywords

Internet; software cost estimation; Web application development; Web object analysis; function point analysis; post-mortem data; Application software; Computer industry; Consumer electronics; Costs; Data engineering; Object oriented modeling; Programming; Size measurement; Software measurement; Software performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering, 2009. CiSE 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4507-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4507-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISE.2009.5365936

Filename

5365936