Using Function Points in Agile Projects

Santana, Célio; Leoneo, Fabiana; Vasconcelos, Alexandre Marcos Lins de; Gusmão, Cristine

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20677-1_13

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“…Given the growing importance of reliable, standardized, and quantifying tools for measurement and analysis of software engineering in agile environments, we propose to replicate the study performed by Santana et al [7] with our own research data. As described in an earlier study [14], we collected a repository with primary data of more than 350 finalized software engineering projects.…”

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“…However more recently, in 2011, a quantitative analysis of the correlation between SP and FP was performed by Santana et al [7]. That case study demonstrated a strong positive correlation between SP and FP that were both collected on 19 iterations from a project realized by a Brazilian public agency.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Similar to Santana et al [7] the research objective of our study is to quantitatively analyze the relationship between SP and FP, based on empirical data from a real life case study where two sets of releases are measured in these two size metrics.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since the rapid growth of agile development methods for software engineering an increased interest can be found in literature on effort estimation of product features in agile , such as SP [4] [5] [6] [7] [2]. In particular, articles on agile delivery methods describe the backgrounds of estimating the relative effort of software products, and the coherence between both SP and size measures such as FP [4] [5] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12].…”

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A replicated study on correlating agile team velocity measured in function and story points

Huijgens

Solingen

2014

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics

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Since the rapid growth of agile development methods for software engineering, more and more organizations measure the size of iterations, releases, and projects in both function points and story points. In 2011 Santana et al. performed a case study on the relation between function points and story points, from data collected in a Brazilian Government Agency. In this paper we replicate this study, using data collected in a Dutch banking organization. Based on a statistical correlation test we find that a comparison between function points and story points as measured in our repository indicates a moderate negative linear relation, where Santana et al. concluded a strong positive linear relation between both size metrics in their case study. Based on the outcome of our study we conclude that it appears too early to make generic claims on the relation between function points and story points; in fact FSM-theory seems to underpin that such a relationship is a spurious one.

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A replicated study on correlating agile team velocity measured in function and story points

Huijgens

Solingen

2014

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics

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Effort Estimation across Mobile App Platforms using Agile Processes: A Systematic Literature Review

Altaleb¹,

Gravell²

2018

JSW

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Abstract:It is predicted that smartphone numbers will increase to 2.8B in 2018, up from around 2B in 2016. Moreover, revenue from application stores is predicted to reach $189B by 2020, up from $88.3B in 2016 1 . Software effort and size estimation are essential when it comes to project managers being able to manage and plan a project so as to prevent it from failing. The planning and development of mobile applications differs from other traditional software applications due to the characteristics of the mobile environment, high autonomy requirements, market competition, and many other constraints. Therefore, this paper presents the results of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) concerning effort and size estimation models in mobile application development; this is followed by a summary of estimation techniques used across mobile apps. In particular, we focus on the software estimation models that are applicable to the Agile Software Development (ASD) process. The aim of this SLR is to provide researchers and practitioners with an overview of the current state-of-the-art software estimation techniques used in mobile applications. At the end of this review, some suggestions, research gaps and possible future work will be presented.

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