Issues of using function point analysis method for requirement changes during software development phase
Software go through changes at all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Accepting a large amount of changes may raise the time and cost of the software. While denying changes may rise customer dissatisfaction. An effective change acceptance decision helps software project manager to dec...
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| description | Software go through changes at all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Accepting a large amount of changes may raise the time and cost of the software. While denying changes may rise customer dissatisfaction. An effective change acceptance decision helps software project manager to decide whether to accept or reject these changes. Software effort estimation is one of the methods that helps software project manager in an efficient change acceptance decision. Several software effort estimation techniques have been introduced to date and Function Point Analysis (FPA) is one of them. FPA method is used for measuring the size and complexity of a software by calculating the functionality that the system provides its user. Many studies highlighted that FPA method is used for early phases of SDLC as compared to software development phase. During software development phase software artifacts are in inconsistent states. Therefore, it is a challenging task for software project manager to estimate the amount of required effort for a change request during software development phase. In this paper we have used FPA method in a case study for requirement changes during software development phase. This study has highlighted the main concerns of using FPA method for requirement changes during software development phase. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-818722019-09-29T10:54:16Z http://eprints.utm.my/81872/ Issues of using function point analysis method for requirement changes during software development phase Shah, Jalal Kama, Nazri QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Software go through changes at all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Accepting a large amount of changes may raise the time and cost of the software. While denying changes may rise customer dissatisfaction. An effective change acceptance decision helps software project manager to decide whether to accept or reject these changes. Software effort estimation is one of the methods that helps software project manager in an efficient change acceptance decision. Several software effort estimation techniques have been introduced to date and Function Point Analysis (FPA) is one of them. FPA method is used for measuring the size and complexity of a software by calculating the functionality that the system provides its user. Many studies highlighted that FPA method is used for early phases of SDLC as compared to software development phase. During software development phase software artifacts are in inconsistent states. Therefore, it is a challenging task for software project manager to estimate the amount of required effort for a change request during software development phase. In this paper we have used FPA method in a case study for requirement changes during software development phase. This study has highlighted the main concerns of using FPA method for requirement changes during software development phase. 2018 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Shah, Jalal and Kama, Nazri (2018) Issues of using function point analysis method for requirement changes during software development phase. In: 4th Symposium on Asia-Pacific Requirements Engineering Symposium, APRES 2017, 9 November 2017 through 10 November 2017, Melaka, Malaysia. |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Shah, Jalal Kama, Nazri Issues of using function point analysis method for requirement changes during software development phase |
| title | Issues of using function point analysis method for requirement changes during software development phase |
| title_full | Issues of using function point analysis method for requirement changes during software development phase |
| title_fullStr | Issues of using function point analysis method for requirement changes during software development phase |
| title_full_unstemmed | Issues of using function point analysis method for requirement changes during software development phase |
| title_short | Issues of using function point analysis method for requirement changes during software development phase |
| title_sort | issues of using function point analysis method for requirement changes during software development phase |
| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
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