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Software Metrics, 3rd Edition
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Software Metrics, 3rd Edition

by Norman Fenton, James Bieman
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
617 pages
19h 10m
English
CRC Press
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Measuring Internal Product Attributes 355
FPs can form the basis for an eort estimate.
EXAMPLE 8.14
Suppose our historical database of project measurements reveals that it takes
a developer an average of two person-days of effort to implement an FP.
Then we may estimate the effort needed to complete the spelling checker as
118 days (i.e., 59 FPs multiplied by 2 days each).
But FPs are also used in other ways as a size measure. For example,
they can be used to express defect density in terms of defects per FP. ey
are also used in contracts, both to report progress and to dene payment.
For instance, Onvlee claimed that 50–60% of xed priced ...
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ISBN: 9781439838228