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On the Estimation of the Functional Size of Software from Requirements Specifications

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This paper introduces a measurement procedure, called RmFFP, which describes a set of operations for modelling and estimating the size of object-oriented software systems from high-level specifications using the OO-Method Requirement Model. OO-Method is an automatic software production method. The contribution of this work is to systematically define a set of rules that allows estimating the functional size at an early stage of the software production process, in accordance with COSMIC-FFP. To do this, we describe the design, the application, and the analysis of the proposed measurement procedure following the steps of a process model for software measurement. We also report initial results on the evaluation of RmFFP in terms of its reproducibility.

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    Nelly Condori-Fernández, Silvia Abrahão & Oscar Pastor

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Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology under the DESTINO Project, Ref. TIN2004-03534, Spain.

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Condori-Fernández, N., Abrahão, S. & Pastor, O. On the Estimation of the Functional Size of Software from Requirements Specifications. J Comput Sci Technol 22, 358–370 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-007-9050-6

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