Size estimation for object oriented software systems

Abstract

Accurate size estimation of software projects during early phases of newlineSoftware Development Life Cycle SDLC is important since it helps the newlinepractitioners in better decision making with respect to manpower and cost newlineTowards addressing this need for a unified developmental and test newlinesize estimation model for Object Oriented software an adaptation of the newlinestandards based Function Point Analysis model is proposed in the newlinepresent work The adaptation captures the various properties of the OO newlinesoftware at the analysis and design phase of the SDLC based on Unified newlineModeling language UML diagrams Development and test size estimation newlineduring the analysis phase is determined by deriving the estimation newlinecomponents from the UML use case model Development size during the newlinedesign phase is determined by deriving the estimation components from the newlineUML object model newline newline