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I’m a newcomer in the the Function Point Analysis. I’ve recently attended a 3-day course and now wanting to practice with real case studies from my current job. I have developed a device management system and want to apply FPA to evaluate baseline of my application.

In a device management application each DEVICE is identified by a list of ATTRIBUTES, e.g. ram size, disk size, wifi mac address and so on. The above information are displayed in the device details screen, while vendor, model, imei and operating system name are listed in the summary screen.
In the physical data model I have an entity for the DEVICE (imei, vendor, model, operating system) and an entity for APPLICATIONS installed on the device. I also have a property table to list all ATTRIBUTES of a device in form of name and value couples. The name of all possible attributes are known in advance, but the actual values and number of properties listed depend on the device capabilities.

In the attempt to identify ILF, DET and RET for this model I have the following options:

1. 1 ILF with 3 RETs (Device, Applications, Attributes) and 8 DETs (IMEI, vendor, model, app_name, app_version, app_package, attr_name, attr_value)
2. 1 ILF with 2 RETs (Device, Applications) and DETs: 3 for apps (app_name, app_version, app_package) + N for attributes (IMEI, vendor, model, ram size, disk size, wifi, mac…), being N the max number of attributes available.
3. Other options…

Which is correct according to your view?]]> http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/48/135.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/48/135.page GMT Suppose we need to implement the same report (Same DETS, Same FTR and Same Business logic) in different media (i.e PDF, Excel, CSV). Suppose the report has calculations (it is a EO).
How many reports you count? One for each media? or only one for all the media?
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I am trying to estimate the parameter 'a' and 'b' in this continuous pde where x is known for all time.

dx=-a(x+b)dt + dW

where W is a brownian motion with zero mean and known variance.

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we are studying the possibility of including FPM tool in teaching a course on software metrics in our university.
We are very pleased with its capabilities, but we have a little problem and I would like your support.

As you can see in the attached images, we develop a count project, with an application and a subsystem to obtect adjusted FP.
Then we open the project data editor to create a plandata (following the tool's help), a count and a project estimation.

When we change to Cocomo tab and we mark the subsystem in the Count tab..., we don't see any change in the effort values on the overview window.

What are we doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.]]> http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/45/126.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/45/126.page GMT I am working on FP estimates for migration purpose wherein we are going to re-use existing DB schema. How do I calculate ILFs? Do we need to count ILFs here? Please clarify meaning of "Maintain" in ILF definition. Does this mean only creating database tables or any additional work ?]]> http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/44/123.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/44/123.page GMT
1. Do I need to count the client application and server application separately? For server it is a business service hosted on IIS.
So what are the aspects to be considered for sizing the server application.

2. I need to estimate the effort for a client application which is being ported to a different technology. The business service won't be having any change and this new application would also consume the same business service. All database access and other interfacing is through this service only. So I need to count the GUI development effort on a new technology. How should I approach this.

I am new to FP and kind of confused whether on how client server application can be estimated using function point. Please help]]> http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/43/122.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/43/122.page GMT
1) How & where to register
2) Exam Fee

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Do you have any experience with [b]COSMIC [/b]...

Thanks
Ilbey Batuhan]]> http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/38/114.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/38/114.page GMT Which countries use [b]NESMA[/b]
Do you have any experience with [b]NESMA[/b]

Thanks
Ilbey Batuhan]]> http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/37/111.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/37/111.page GMT What factors should be considered when determining the position of [b]Application Boundaries[/b] for applications?
]]> http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/36/106.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/36/106.page GMT [list]Customizing of all NESMA impact factors[/list]
[list]A new tree enables now the easy navigation in counts[/list]
[list]Based on the [b]Eclipse 4.2.1[/b][/list]

[b]Download:[/b] [url]http://www.functionpointmodeler.com[/url]]]> http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/35/105.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/35/105.page GMT ]]> http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/33/99.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/33/99.page GMT http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/32/94.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/32/94.page GMT
It is really free fpa counting software for any commercial, educational, etc use...

Enjoy it...
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Thanks for the input!]]> http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/30/89.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/30/89.page GMT http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/29/85.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/29/85.page GMT faisalshakeel79@gmail.com at the earliest. Thanks.]]> http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/28/83.page http://www.functionpointmodeler.com/forum/posts/preList/28/83.page GMT