The Automatic Measurement of Full Function Points Based on UML
Cheng Li · 2004
Software size plays a significant role in project evaluation and decision-making. Full Function Points(FFP) which give a measure of the size of the system by measuring the functionalities from an end-use perspective and a functional perspective .are gaining an increasingly widespread application. Unfortunately FFP calculation is mostly a manual process , so many abuses obviously occur and automatic measurement is demanded very much. This paper presents and implements an automated system for measuring the FFP software metric based on UML. Automation not only gains the more accurate of its size measurement but also lessens the work effort and reduces measurement costs of FFP counts. Secondly automation provides a good opportunity to reduces the risk of errors being introduced into the extracted data ,and the most important thing is it makes repeatability of the results. Thus is important for the acceptance of functional size measurement.