200 ◾ COSMIC Function Points: Theory and Advanced Practices
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3.3.5.2 Enhancement and NESMA Function Point Analysis
In 1992 Sogeti (at that time named Interprogram) proposed a method for
maintenance function point analysis in which the change of the way data ele-
ment types and record types are used in a function is measured. Later the
NESMA Workgroup FPA and Enhancement published a document describing
an approach based on the same principles (Engelhart et al. 2001).
e rst step in this approach is to make an inventory of all the (elementary)
functions involved in a new release of the software. Some of the functionality will
be new, but usually a lot of the functionality of a releas