Title
A Lean Approach to Estimate the Functional Size of Operating Applications
Abstract
Functional size measures have been gaining increasing acceptance not only for project estimation and productivity comparisons but also for the evaluation of the company assets concerning with operating applications. However, functional sizing operating applications can represent a complex task (they could be developed in past projects, in some cases by others, with long standing technologies, and without useful documentation supporting them). Thus, companies require cheaper strategies to estimate functional size of these applications. To this end, we proposed some measurement approaches concerning with the number of physical tables and the number of read and read/written tables that can be easily collected from the database schema and the application interfaces. We assessed the effectiveness of the proposals performing an empirical study based on 17 applications of an Italian company. The results highlight that the proposed approaches allowed to obtain accurate functional size estimations, thus turning out to be suitable for the involved company.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/SEAA.2013.40
EUROMICRO-SEAA
Keywords
Field
DocType
database management systems,project estimation,company asset evaluation,italian company,functional size,accurate functional size estimation,function points,software metrics,operating applications,company asset,functional size measure,software functional size measurement,lean approach,database schema,functional sizing operating application,functional size estimation,asset management,productivity comparisons,project management,application interfaces,cheaper strategy,software process improvement,involved company,physical tables,application interface
Systems engineering,Computer science,Function point,Database schema,Software metric,Documentation,Asset management,Empirical research,Software measurement,Reliability engineering,Project management
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
19
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Filomena Ferrucci174380.34
Carmine Gravino272147.71
Guido Moretto310.39