Quantitative Software Management, Inc. , a leader in software process improvement and estimation, today announced a new release of their Function Point Languages Table. The table provides industry ...

Function points were defined in 1979 by Allan Albrecht at IBM. Lines-of-code measures are typically used to size application software.

Function Points measure the size of IT application software by measuring the business functionality the application provides to users.

Increasing number of organizations involved in application development and maintenance now use function points for sizing the software. In this post, we’ll have a look at what function points ...

Function point counting as the standard unit of output used to analyse and measure the quality, productivity and cost of building and operating applications is a challenging part of software analysis.

Function point analysis (FPA), a method to quantify software’s functional requirements, has been commonly discredited for some purposes, such as calculating the productivity of an IT group.