@conference {735, title = {Towards an Automated Functional Size Measurement Procedure: An Industrial Case Study}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Software Measurement and 12th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement}, year = {2017}, publisher = {ACM}, organization = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, abstract = {

Functional size measurement automatically calculated for specific development frameworks is a challenge for the software industry. Automating function points counting involves benefits such as savings in time and costs and better reliability and accuracy of the measures, but it is hardly automatable. This paper presents an automated functional size measurement procedure, which has been systematically designed to obtain the functional size of software systems modeled in the development framework called FastWorks. In this study, we describe the framework architecture, the procedure design based on IFPUG FPA and the measurement prototype tool. Finally, the approach is preliminarily validated, the results are presented and lessons learned are discussed.

}, keywords = {empirical validation, FSM estimation, FSM procedure, Functional size measurement, IFPUG function points, measurement tool}, isbn = {978-1-4503-4853-9}, doi = {10.1145/3143434.3143460}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3143434.3143460}, author = {Quesada-L{\'o}pez, Christian and Jenkins, Marcelo and Salas, Luis Carlos and G{\'o}mez, Juan Carlos} }