Abstract: Today, more and more Web sites and Applications (WebApps) are becoming mission-critical systems. Measures of functional size are a prerequisite to successful quantitative management of software projects. However, the nature of the web has recently imposed new and challenging characteristics, which are not supported by the existing estimation metric and models. In order to avoid the Web crisis, urge the use of web engineering approaches for developing and estimating web projects in a systematic way. To achieve this goal, we present a novel size metric for accurately measuring the functional size of web applications early in the development life cycle. The main contribution of this work is the introduction of a measurement process that is embedded in the conceptual modelling phase of a model-driven approach for developing web applications. The results obtained from our experiments with this approach are outlined in this work.
Abrahão and Pastor proposed the OOmFPWeb method REF which maps the Function Points concepts into the primitives used in the conceptual modeling phase of OOWS, a method for producing software for the Web.
Measuring the functional size of web applications
Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.
Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.
Computer Science