An exploratory study on functional size measurement based on code

Hennie Huijgens; Magiel  Bruntink; Arie Van Deursen; Tijs Van Der Storm; Frank Vogelezang

doi:10.1145/2904354.2904360

An exploratory study on functional size measurement based on code

Hennie Huijgens, Magiel Bruntink, Arie Van Deursen, Tijs Van Der Storm, Frank Vogelezang

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Abstract

In this paper we explore opportunities, challenges, and obstacles that Functional Size Measurement (FSM) experts assume to be in automatically derived functional size, directly from the software project code itself. We designed a structured survey, that was answered by 336 FSM specialists. A majority of the respondents consider FSM to be an important tool for decision making. No indications are found for any perceived impact of agile methodology on the difficulty of applying FSM. Respondents overall think of automated FSM as important, but also difficult to realize. 54% of the respondents think that automated FSM will help measurement specialists, while 44% thinks that it will help decision makers too. The most preferred FSM method for automation is COSMIC (25%), followed by IFPUG (21%) and Nesma (16%). Respondents perceive automated FSM to be most suitable for baselining, benchmarking, and maintenance and legacy purposes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2016
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	56-65
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450341882
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2904354.2904360
Publication status	Published - 14 May 2016
Event	International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2016 - Austin, United States Duration: 14 May 2016 → 15 May 2016

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Conference	International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	14/05/16 → 15/05/16

Keywords

Automated FSM
COSMIC
FPA
FSM
Function pointa analysis
Functional size measurement
IFPUG
Nesma

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Huijgens, H, Bruntink, M, Van Deursen, A, Van Der Storm, T & Vogelezang, F 2016, An exploratory study on functional size measurement based on code. in Proceedings - International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2016., 2904360, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 56-65, International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2016, Austin, United States, 14/05/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2904354.2904360

An exploratory study on functional size measurement based on code. / Huijgens, Hennie; Bruntink, Magiel; Van Deursen, Arie et al.
Proceedings - International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2016. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016. p. 56-65 2904360.

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