March 23, 2012

Estimating the Functional Size of Oracle eBS applications

For custom developed software functional size estimation method can be done with reasonable accuracy. I have developed an approach, based on NESMA function points, that has proven to be very useful for portfolio sizing.
Estimating the functional size of applications that were built in the Oracle e-Business Suite (eBS) package appeared to be difficult. Available eBS modules contain of a huge amount of functionality that can be used to configure or construct desired functionality for the end-users. But how do you determine the amount of functionality that is available to the end-user?

March 18, 2012

Factors of influence for approximate COSMIC size measurement

Over the last few weeks I have received much more requests than usual from fellow metrics professionals if I can provide a copy of an article I have written. I have recently discovered that LinkedIn now has the possibility to add publications to my profile. So when I received a request for a copy of the article


that I wrote, together with Theo Prins, for the SMEF 2007 conference, I put that copy on my LinkedIn profile. And it has been downloaded more than a dozen times already. Apparently it is a topic of interest. Why?