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Measuring a Software Production Line with IFPUG-based Function Points

Authors:
Volkan Halil Bagci
Umut Orcun Turgut
Ali Ciltik
Semih Cetin
Recep Ozcelik

Keywords: Function Point; Software Measurement; Software Production Lines; Productivity Coefficient

Abstract:
Software Production Lines (SPLs) aim to manage cost-based activities for product delivery. Our company has been using SPL engineering for about 10 years and successfully implemented cost-controlled production cycles for SPLs during past two years, which are based on well-known Function Point (FP) approach supported by International Function Point User Group (IFPUG). Cost-based product delivery in SPLs requires the complete transformation of requirements gathering, cost estimation, time planning and productivity measuring steps. At the maturity level reached so far, every contributing part of the production line can be measured and cost-attached effectively and new targets can be set accordingly. Moreover, production bandwidth can be estimated precisely based on statistical productivity coefficients of every working team. This paper introduces our cost-controlled SPL approach, the achievements so far and our future plans for improvement.

Pages: 202 to 208

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-367-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014