process family points versus (full) function points
New paradigms in software engineering require new metrics to measure the size and estimate the effort for development or modification activities. One of these new software engineering methods is the approach of Process Families, which extends a Software Product Line engineering by a distinctive consideration of process flows. There are only a few theoretically based metrics for Product Line development available. Most of these measurement methods are practically immature and none of them takes account of process flows. Due to this fact we developed the metrics of Process Family Points which are briefly described within this article. Mainly this paper focuses an empirical comparison between the measures of Process Family Points and Function Points as well as Full Function Points.
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