Function Point Analysis

With the development of software industry, software estimation and measurement is catching much more concern. Scale increasing in applications and a variety of programming languages using at the same time, manual measurement based on the LOC (Line of Code) cannot meet the estimating requirements. Security is becoming more and more important in most of the software construct. The emergence of Function Point resolves these difficult issues. It is extensively used in production analysis and estimation. FPA can also be used in the estimation of embedded and real-time software. In recent years, Object Oriented (OO) technology has emerged as a dominant practice in Software Engineering domain. it is useful to match traditional Function Point (FP) measurement to new OO approaches, including models based on Unified Modeling Language. Web applications can be estimated by Web objects. It is a quite different measure, since it starts from the most classic functional size metric, Function Points, and extends it by taking into account components that can be typically found in a web system. This paper gives about the overview of methods available in function point analysis.