Improving Size Estimates with .NET Product Metrics (original) (raw)

Software projects often fail regardless of the technological changes in recent years. One of the primary reasons is the intuitive assessment of project size, effort, costs and duration. Project size is an independent value where effort, costs and duration are derived values directly related to project size. For size estimates, several methodological approaches are available and in use today. However the Function Point Analysis (FPA) method tends to be predominant in practice as well as in research. In this paper, the use of the FPA method for a project developed in the .NET environment is briefly discussed and linked with source code metrics in order to improve size estimates and get more information related to derived values such as effort, costs and duration.