Additional Resources

Garmus, David and David Herron. Function Point Analysis: Measurement Practices for Successful Software Projects. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2001. This book describes function-point counting and presents some simplified counting techniques.

Jones, Capers. Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality, 2d Ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1997. Jones discusses the history of function points in detail and presents the arguments against LOC measures.

Stutzke, Richard D. Estimating Software-Intensive Systems. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2005. Chapters 8 and 9 describe additional size-estimation techniques, including use case points, application points, Web objects, and simplified function-point techniques. Stutzke also discusses size estimation on COTS (commercial off the shelf) projects.

www.construx.com/resources/surveyor/. This site provides a free code-counting tool called Construx Surveyor.

www.ifpug.org. The International Function Point Users Group is the definitive source for current function point counting rules.

www.nesma.nl. The Netherlands Software Metrics Users Association Web site provides information on the Dutch counting method.