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

• 作 者: Nelly Condori-Fernández Silvia Abrah(a)o Oscar Pastor
• 机 构: Department of Information Systems and Computation, Valencia University of Technology, Camino de Vera
• 出 处: 计算机科学技术学报(英文版)
• 发表日期: 2007年3期
• 关键词: requirement specification product metrics measurement technique

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