- It is developed in 1979 by Alan Albrecht (IBM)
- Industry statistics on 13 thousand projects is available
- The technique is standardized in ISO/IEC 20926:2009
- Measures software volume in the terms clear to the customer – screen forms, reports, etc.
- The quantity of function points correlates with quantity of code lines
- Function Points encourages the developer to increase volumes of software products in terms of result for the customer, but not in terms of increase in quantity of code lines
- It is used in 30% of projects of the USA
- Are obligatory in government contracts on software development in Brazil
- A technique of Fast Function Points – the quantity of objects by 9 times in comparison with Function Points, accuracy – +/-3% of the Function Points method for big tasks is reduced, for small tasks – accuracy differs many times
Algorithm of accomplishment of assessment by method of function points
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