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10th IEEE International Symposium on Software Metrics (METRICS'04)
pp. 292-299
Estimating Effort by Use Case Points: Method, Tool and Case Study
Shinji Kusumoto, Osaka University, Japan
Fumikazu Matukawa, Osaka University, Japan
Katsuro Inoue, Osaka University, Japan
Shigeo Hanabusa, Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd., Japan
Yuusuke Maegawa, Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd., Japan
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Use case point (UCP) method has been proposed to estimate
software development effort in early phase of software
project and used in a lot of software organizations. Intuitively,
UCP is measured by counting the number of actors
and transactions included in use case models. Several tools
to support calculating UCP have been developed. However,
they only extract actors and use cases and the complexity
classification of them are conducted manually. We
have been introducing UCP method to software projects in
Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd. To effective introduction
of UCP method, we have developed an automatic use case
measurement tool, called U-EST. This paper describes the
idea to automatically classify the complexity of actors and
use cases from use case model. We have also applied the
U-EST to actual use case models and examined the difference
between the value by the tool and one by the specialist.
As the results, UCPs measured by the U-EST are similar
to ones by the specialist.
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Citation:
Shinji Kusumoto, Fumikazu Matukawa, Katsuro Inoue, Shigeo Hanabusa, Yuusuke Maegawa,
"Estimating Effort by Use Case Points: Method, Tool and Case Study,"
metrics,
pp. 292-299,
10th IEEE International Symposium on Software Metrics (METRICS'04),
2004
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