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Evaluating the Productivity and Reproducibility of a Measurement Procedure

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Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice (ER 2006)

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This paper reports an empirical study that used computer science major students as experimental subjects to evaluate the productivity and the reproducibility of RmFFP. This is a functional size measurement procedure designed according to the COSMIC-FFP method for object-oriented systems that are specified using the OO-Method approach. The results show that the productivity of RmFFP is acceptable when compared to other procedures found in the literature. Furthermore, RmFFP produces reproducible functional size assessments.

Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology under the DESTINO project, ref. TIN2004-03534.

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Computation, Valencia University of Technology, Camino de Vera, s/n, Valencia, Spain

    Nelly Condori-Fernández & Óscar Pastor

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  1. Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    John F. Roddick

  2. iSOCO, Spain

    V. Richard Benjamins

  3. CEDRIC-CNAM, France

    Samira Si-said Cherfi

  4. University of Cincinnati, USA

    Roger Chiang

  5. Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France

    Christophe Claramunt

  6. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

    Ramez A. Elmasri

  7. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy

    Fabio Grandi

  8. Drexel University, USA

    Hyoil Han

  9. E-Business and Web Science Research Group, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany

    Martin Hepp

  10. University of Patras, Argolidos 40-42, 153-44, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  11. University of Manitoba, Canada

    Vojislav B. Mišić

  12. Ghent University, Belgium

    Geert Poels

  13. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  14. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    Juan Trujillo

  15. EPFL, Switzerland

    Christelle Vangenot

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Condori-Fernández, N., Pastor, Ó. (2006). Evaluating the Productivity and Reproducibility of a Measurement Procedure. In: Roddick, J.F., et al. Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice. ER 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908883_42

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