An Investigation Into an Effective Method of Automatically Analysing Oracle Applications to Count Function Points
Jennifer L. A. Wong · Australasian Journal of Paramedicine · 1996
Function Point Analysis (FPA) is a synthetic software estimation metric used for computing the size and complexity of applications. It was first introduced by Allan. J. Albrecht during the mid-seventies, as a result of a lengthy research based on applications that were developed using COBOL and PL/1 programming languages. The purpose of this research· is to investigate the possibility, and the most effective method, of automatically performing a Function Point Analysis on Oracle applications that consist of Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports. The research revealed a seemingly lack of other researches on this topic. As FPA was invented a few years prior to the birth of Oracle, and consequently that of fourth-generation languages, it had to be tailored to suit the fourth-generation language Oracle tools used to develop the Oracle applications. This experiment provided a proof of concept and resulted in a software that achieved its objective of automatically calculating Oracle applications, consisting of Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports, in an a posteriori manner.