Detailed description of the use case point estimation method use to estimate the size of Application before Developing it. This Model is used in Software Engineering Field
This document discusses project scheduling for software engineering projects. It covers key topics such as:
- The importance of scheduling for establishing a roadmap and tracking progress on large, complex software projects.
- Basic principles of software project scheduling including compartmentalizing work, indicating interdependencies, allocating time and resources, and assigning responsibilities.
- Methods for defining tasks, networks, and timelines to plan and track schedules.
- Techniques for monitoring schedule performance such as status meetings, milestone tracking, and earned value analysis.
- Factors that influence schedules such as risks, changing requirements, estimates, and technical difficulties.
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This document provides an overview of the 5 Whys root cause analysis tool. The 5 Whys involves asking "why" five times to determine the root cause of a problem. It should address why something was made incorrectly and why it was not detected. While typically involving five questions, the number is flexible based on the complexity of the problem. When applying the 5 Whys, clearly define the problem, ask full questions, and follow the thought process without jumping to conclusions. The goal is to identify systemic causes that allow problems rather than just surface explanations.
Fishbone diagrams, also known as Ishikawa diagrams or cause-and-effect diagrams, are a visual tool for organizing potential causes for a specific problem or effect. They help identify root causes by sorting possible causes into categories such as methods, materials, machines, people, measurements, and environment. To create a fishbone diagram, the problem is written at the head and main categories of causes are listed as bones extending from the head. Potential specific causes are then listed branching off from each category bone. The diagram can identify root causes and areas for further investigation through a visual representation of the interrelationships between various causes and effects.
Lecture Notes
Module-1, Chapter-2
Data Types, Variables, and Arrays
Programme: B E (CSE)
Semester: 3
Course Code: BCS306A
Course Instructor: Demian Antony Dmello
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An Overview of Java: Object-Oriented Programming (Two Paradigms, Abstraction, The Three OOP Principles), Using Blocks of Code, Lexical Issues (Whitespace, Identifiers, Literals, Comments, Separators, The Java Keywords).
Data Types, Variables, and Arrays: The Primitive Types (Integers, Floating-Point Types, Characters, Booleans), Variables, Type Conversion and Casting, Automatic Type Promotion in Expressions, Arrays, Introducing Type Inference with Local Variables.
Operators: Arithmetic Operators, Relational Operators, Boolean Logical Operators, The Assignment Operator, The ? Operator, Operator Precedence, Using Parentheses.
Control Statements: Java’s Selection Statements (if, The Traditional switch), Iteration Statements (while, do-while, for, The For-Each Version of the for Loop, Local Variable Type Inference in a for Loop, Nested Loops), Jump Statements (Using break, Using continue, return).
An Overview of Java; Data Types, Variables and Arrays; Operators; Control Statements.
Introducing Classes; Methods and Classes.
Inheritance; Interfaces.
Packages; Exceptions.
Multithreaded Programming; Enumerations, Type Wrappers and Autoboxing.
The document discusses the process of developing a work breakdown structure (WBS) for a housing construction project. It begins by establishing the levels of the WBS from Level 1 (the overall project) down to Level 4 (individual tasks). It then shows how to develop a WBS dictionary to define the work for each WBS element. Next, it covers creating an organizational breakdown structure (OBS) to assign responsibilities to organizational departments. Finally, it explains how to merge the WBS and OBS into a responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) to allocate specific tasks to responsible parties.
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) uses visual image content to search large image databases according to user needs. CBIR systems represent images by extracting features related to color, shape, texture, and spatial layout. Features are extracted from regions of the image and compared to features of images in the database to find the most similar matches. CBIR has applications in medical imaging, fingerprints, photo collections, and more. Techniques include representing images with histograms of color and texture features extracted through transforms.
Risk management involves identifying potential problems, assessing their likelihood and impacts, and developing strategies to address them. There are two main risk strategies - reactive, which addresses risks after issues arise, and proactive, which plans ahead. Key steps in proactive risk management include identifying risks through checklists, estimating their probability and impacts, developing mitigation plans, monitoring risks and mitigation effectiveness, and adjusting plans as needed. Common risk categories include project risks, technical risks, and business risks.
This document discusses software project management artifacts. Artifacts are organized into management and engineering sets. The management set includes artifacts like the work breakdown structure, business case, and software development plan. The engineering set includes requirement, design, implementation, and deployment artifact sets. Each set captures information through various notations and tools to manage the software development lifecycle.
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This document summarizes a lecture on software metrics. It defines software metrics and indicators. It describes the seven core metrics used in managing software projects: work and progress, budgeted cost and expenditures, staffing and team dynamics, change traffic and stability, breakage and modularity, rework and adaptability, and mean time between failures. It also discusses the three management indicators of technical progress, financial status, and staffing progress.
This document discusses software architecture from both a management and technical perspective. From a management perspective, it defines an architecture as the design concept, an architecture baseline as tangible artifacts that satisfy stakeholders, and an architecture description as a human-readable representation of the design. It also notes that mature processes, clear requirements, and a demonstrable architecture are important for predictable project planning. Technically, it describes Philippe Kruchten's model of software architecture, which includes use case, design, process, component, and deployment views that model different aspects of realizing a system's design.
The document discusses the software design process. It begins by explaining that software design is an iterative process that translates requirements into a blueprint for constructing the software. It then describes the main steps and outputs of the design process, which include transforming specifications into design models, reviewing designs for quality, and producing a design document. The document also covers key concepts in software design like abstraction, architecture, patterns, modularity, and information hiding.
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This document provides an introduction to software project management. It defines what a project and software project management are, and discusses the key characteristics and phases of projects. Software project management aims to deliver software on time, within budget and meeting requirements. It also discusses challenges that can occur in software projects related to people, processes, products and technology. Effective project management focuses on planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling the project work.
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The document discusses the phases of project management and software quality assurance and testing. It describes the four phases of the Unified Process: Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition. Each phase has specific objectives and outcomes. The Inception phase involves requirements gathering and planning. The Elaboration phase establishes architecture and designs use cases. The Construction phase implements the project. The Transition phase involves beta testing, training users, and assessing customer satisfaction.
Requirement prioritization is used in Software product management for determining which candidate requirements of a software product should be included in a certain release. Requirements are also prioritized to minimize risk during development so that the most important or high risk requirements are implemented first. Several methods for assessing a prioritization of software requirements exist.
Evolutionary process models allow developers to iteratively create increasingly complete versions of software. Examples include the prototyping paradigm, spiral model, and concurrent development model. The prototyping paradigm uses prototypes to elicit requirements from customers. The spiral model couples iterative prototyping with controlled development, dividing the project into framework activities. The concurrent development model concurrently develops components with defined interfaces to enable integration. These evolutionary models allow flexibility and accommodate changes but require strong communication and updated requirements.
This document discusses algorithms and their analysis. It defines an algorithm as a step-by-step procedure to solve a problem or calculate a quantity. Algorithm analysis involves evaluating memory usage and time complexity. Asymptotics, such as Big-O notation, are used to formalize the growth rates of algorithms. Common sorting algorithms like insertion sort and quicksort are analyzed using recurrence relations to determine their time complexities as O(n^2) and O(nlogn), respectively.
The document discusses staffing level estimation over the course of a software development project. It describes how the number of personnel needed varies at different stages: a small group is needed for planning and analysis, a larger group for architectural design, and the largest number for implementation and system testing. It also references models like the Rayleigh curve and Putnam's interpretation that estimate personnel levels over time. Tables show estimates for the distribution of effort, schedule, and personnel across activities for different project sizes. The key idea is that staffing requirements fluctuate throughout the software life cycle, with peaks during implementation and testing phases.
The document discusses various aspects of requirements engineering including processes, techniques, challenges, and importance. It describes requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management. Key points covered include feasibility studies, types of requirements, characteristics of good requirements, requirements traceability and evolution. Diagrams like use cases, activity diagrams and data flow diagrams are presented as examples of requirements specification outputs.
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This document provides an overview of a requirements specification (SRS) for a software engineering project. It defines what an SRS is, its purpose, types of requirements it should include, its typical structure, characteristics of a good SRS, and benefits of developing an SRS. The SRS is intended to clearly define the requirements for a software product to guide its design and development.
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This document discusses various techniques for estimating effort for software projects. It describes common challenges with software estimation like subjective nature and changing requirements. It then explains different estimation techniques like algorithmic models, expert judgment, analogy, top-down and bottom-up approaches. Specifically, it outlines the function point analysis technique and COCOMO model for estimating effort based on source lines of code and complexity factors. Finally, it lists some typical rules of thumb for software estimation from Capers Jones.
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The document proposes a model for estimating resources needed to develop software using the Objectory process. The model is based on function points, which counts types of inputs, outputs, inquiries etc to determine the size of the system. It then adjusts for technical complexity factors and new environmental factors. It presents this Use Case Points model and shows how to calculate unadjusted use case points, technical complexity factor, and environmental factor. Finally, it validates the model using data from three projects. In summary, the model provides an early way to estimate resources for Objectory projects based on use case analysis and adjustment factors.
Software cost estimation is a key open issue for the software industry, which
suffers from cost overruns frequently. As the most popular technique for object-oriented
software cost estimation is Use Case Points (UCP) method, however, it has two major
drawbacks: the uncertainty of the cost factors and the abrupt classification. To address
these two issues, refined the use case complexity classification using fuzzy logic theory which
mitigate the uncertainty of cost factors and improve the accuracy of classification.
Software estimation is a crucial task in software engineering. Software estimation
encompasses cost, effort, schedule, and size. The importance of software estimation becomes
critical in the early stages of the software life cycle when the details of software have not
been revealed yet. Several commercial and non-commercial tools exist to estimate software
in the early stages. Most software effort estimation methods require software size as one of
the important metric inputs and consequently, software size estimation in the early stages
becomes essential.
The proposed method presents a techniques using fuzzy logic theory to improve the
accuracy of the use case points method by refining the use case classification.
Risk management involves identifying potential problems, assessing their likelihood and impacts, and developing strategies to address them. There are two main risk strategies - reactive, which addresses risks after issues arise, and proactive, which plans ahead. Key steps in proactive risk management include identifying risks through checklists, estimating their probability and impacts, developing mitigation plans, monitoring risks and mitigation effectiveness, and adjusting plans as needed. Common risk categories include project risks, technical risks, and business risks.
This document discusses software project management artifacts. Artifacts are organized into management and engineering sets. The management set includes artifacts like the work breakdown structure, business case, and software development plan. The engineering set includes requirement, design, implementation, and deployment artifact sets. Each set captures information through various notations and tools to manage the software development lifecycle.
Lecture 8 (software Metrics) Unit 3.pptxironman427662
This document summarizes a lecture on software metrics. It defines software metrics and indicators. It describes the seven core metrics used in managing software projects: work and progress, budgeted cost and expenditures, staffing and team dynamics, change traffic and stability, breakage and modularity, rework and adaptability, and mean time between failures. It also discusses the three management indicators of technical progress, financial status, and staffing progress.
This document discusses software architecture from both a management and technical perspective. From a management perspective, it defines an architecture as the design concept, an architecture baseline as tangible artifacts that satisfy stakeholders, and an architecture description as a human-readable representation of the design. It also notes that mature processes, clear requirements, and a demonstrable architecture are important for predictable project planning. Technically, it describes Philippe Kruchten's model of software architecture, which includes use case, design, process, component, and deployment views that model different aspects of realizing a system's design.
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Introduction to Software Project ManagementReetesh Gupta
This document provides an introduction to software project management. It defines what a project and software project management are, and discusses the key characteristics and phases of projects. Software project management aims to deliver software on time, within budget and meeting requirements. It also discusses challenges that can occur in software projects related to people, processes, products and technology. Effective project management focuses on planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling the project work.
List of Software Development Model and MethodsRiant Soft
RiantSoft a Software Development Company derived the most useful and different types of Software Development Model for the users who want to know the development process. RiantSoft is specialized in custom software development with latest cutting edge technologies.
The document discusses some key issues with conventional software management approaches like the waterfall model. It notes that software development is unpredictable and that management discipline is more important for success than technology. Some problems with the waterfall model are late risk resolution, adversarial stakeholder relationships due to rigid documentation requirements, and a focus on documents over engineering work. The document also provides metrics on the relative costs of development versus maintenance and how people are a major factor in productivity.
The document discusses the phases of project management and software quality assurance and testing. It describes the four phases of the Unified Process: Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition. Each phase has specific objectives and outcomes. The Inception phase involves requirements gathering and planning. The Elaboration phase establishes architecture and designs use cases. The Construction phase implements the project. The Transition phase involves beta testing, training users, and assessing customer satisfaction.
Requirement prioritization is used in Software product management for determining which candidate requirements of a software product should be included in a certain release. Requirements are also prioritized to minimize risk during development so that the most important or high risk requirements are implemented first. Several methods for assessing a prioritization of software requirements exist.
Evolutionary process models allow developers to iteratively create increasingly complete versions of software. Examples include the prototyping paradigm, spiral model, and concurrent development model. The prototyping paradigm uses prototypes to elicit requirements from customers. The spiral model couples iterative prototyping with controlled development, dividing the project into framework activities. The concurrent development model concurrently develops components with defined interfaces to enable integration. These evolutionary models allow flexibility and accommodate changes but require strong communication and updated requirements.
This document discusses algorithms and their analysis. It defines an algorithm as a step-by-step procedure to solve a problem or calculate a quantity. Algorithm analysis involves evaluating memory usage and time complexity. Asymptotics, such as Big-O notation, are used to formalize the growth rates of algorithms. Common sorting algorithms like insertion sort and quicksort are analyzed using recurrence relations to determine their time complexities as O(n^2) and O(nlogn), respectively.
The document discusses staffing level estimation over the course of a software development project. It describes how the number of personnel needed varies at different stages: a small group is needed for planning and analysis, a larger group for architectural design, and the largest number for implementation and system testing. It also references models like the Rayleigh curve and Putnam's interpretation that estimate personnel levels over time. Tables show estimates for the distribution of effort, schedule, and personnel across activities for different project sizes. The key idea is that staffing requirements fluctuate throughout the software life cycle, with peaks during implementation and testing phases.
The document discusses various aspects of requirements engineering including processes, techniques, challenges, and importance. It describes requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management. Key points covered include feasibility studies, types of requirements, characteristics of good requirements, requirements traceability and evolution. Diagrams like use cases, activity diagrams and data flow diagrams are presented as examples of requirements specification outputs.
This lecture provide a detail concepts of user interface development design and evaluation. This lecture have complete guideline toward UI development. The interesting thing about this lecture is Software User Interface Design trends.
There you can find about definition of agile model.Working of agile model.You can also find where to use agile model.Examples of agile model is also given here.
This document provides an overview of a requirements specification (SRS) for a software engineering project. It defines what an SRS is, its purpose, types of requirements it should include, its typical structure, characteristics of a good SRS, and benefits of developing an SRS. The SRS is intended to clearly define the requirements for a software product to guide its design and development.
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This document discusses various techniques for estimating effort for software projects. It describes common challenges with software estimation like subjective nature and changing requirements. It then explains different estimation techniques like algorithmic models, expert judgment, analogy, top-down and bottom-up approaches. Specifically, it outlines the function point analysis technique and COCOMO model for estimating effort based on source lines of code and complexity factors. Finally, it lists some typical rules of thumb for software estimation from Capers Jones.
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The document proposes a model for estimating resources needed to develop software using the Objectory process. The model is based on function points, which counts types of inputs, outputs, inquiries etc to determine the size of the system. It then adjusts for technical complexity factors and new environmental factors. It presents this Use Case Points model and shows how to calculate unadjusted use case points, technical complexity factor, and environmental factor. Finally, it validates the model using data from three projects. In summary, the model provides an early way to estimate resources for Objectory projects based on use case analysis and adjustment factors.
Software cost estimation is a key open issue for the software industry, which
suffers from cost overruns frequently. As the most popular technique for object-oriented
software cost estimation is Use Case Points (UCP) method, however, it has two major
drawbacks: the uncertainty of the cost factors and the abrupt classification. To address
these two issues, refined the use case complexity classification using fuzzy logic theory which
mitigate the uncertainty of cost factors and improve the accuracy of classification.
Software estimation is a crucial task in software engineering. Software estimation
encompasses cost, effort, schedule, and size. The importance of software estimation becomes
critical in the early stages of the software life cycle when the details of software have not
been revealed yet. Several commercial and non-commercial tools exist to estimate software
in the early stages. Most software effort estimation methods require software size as one of
the important metric inputs and consequently, software size estimation in the early stages
becomes essential.
The proposed method presents a techniques using fuzzy logic theory to improve the
accuracy of the use case points method by refining the use case classification.
This document discusses using use case points (UCP) to estimate software development effort. UCP involves classifying use cases and actors based on complexity, then calculating unadjusted use case and actor weights. Technical and environmental factors are also assessed. These variables are used in an equation to determine the adjusted use case points and estimated effort in hours or weeks. The document presents this method and tools to automate it. It also compares UCP to function points and shares results from applying UCP in three industry projects, finding the estimates were close to expert assessments.
This document discusses measuring various aspects of a software development process and project. It describes measuring process components by determining the number of roles, activities, outputs, and tasks. It also discusses measuring a project using function points by identifying files, interfaces, inputs, outputs and inquiries. Finally, it describes measuring the complexity of UML artifacts like use case diagrams, class diagrams, and component diagrams by analyzing elements and relationships.
There are three main elements used to determine estimates for black box testing using Test Point Analysis (TPA): size, test strategy, and productivity. Size is mainly defined by the number of function points, but complexity, interfacing, and uniformity must also be considered. Test strategy depends on requirement importance and user usage/importance ratings. Productivity is affected by many factors and depends on the team. Together these three elements are used to calculate the estimated effort for black box testing on a project.
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This document provides an overview of several software estimation techniques: lines of code estimation, function point estimation, three point estimation, work breakdown structure based estimation, use case based estimation, and estimation in agile projects. It discusses the basics of each technique, including counting lines of code, function points types, the three point estimation formula, how to create a work breakdown structure, and use case point estimation. Examples are provided to illustrate various techniques.
This document discusses an advancement to the Use Case Point (UCP) software estimation method called the Advanced UCP (AUCP). The AUCP incorporates additional effort factors related to End User Development (EUD).
The UCP method estimates project size based on use cases and actors. The document proposes adding 17 new EUD technical factors and 8 EUD environmental factors to account for the additional effort of including EUD features. These new factors relate to things like creating reusable code, security features, and end user training.
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Size and Time Estimation in Goal Graph Using Use Case Points (UCP): A SurveyIJERA Editor
In order to achieve ideal status and meet demands of stakeholders, each organization should follow their vision and long term plan. Goals and strategies are two fundamental basis in vision and mission. Goals identify framework of organization where processes, rules and resources are designed. Goals are modelled based on a graph structure by means of extraction, classification and determining requirements and their relations and in form of graph. Goal graph shows goals which should be satisfied in order to guarantee right route of organization. On the other hand, these goals can be called as predefined sub projects which business management unit should consider and analyse them. If we know approximate size and time of each part, we will design better management plans resulting in more prosperity and less fail. This paper studies how use case points method is used in calculating size and time in goal graph.
This document discusses various techniques for estimating software project costs, schedules, and sizes. It covers function point analysis, lines of code estimation, productivity models like COCOMO, and probabilistic techniques like PERT estimation. Key approaches mentioned include analogies, decomposition, mathematical models, mean schedule dates, and probability distributions.
### **Software Management: A Comprehensive Guide (3000 Words)**
## **Introduction**
Software management is a critical discipline that involves planning, organizing, and overseeing software development and maintenance projects. With the increasing reliance on software across industries, effective management ensures that software solutions are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
This guide explores the key concepts, methodologies, challenges, and best practices in software management, offering insights into how organizations can optimize their software development processes.
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## **1. Understanding Software Management**
Software management encompasses the methodologies, tools, and techniques used to develop, deploy, and maintain software applications. It covers various aspects, including:
- **Project Planning** – Defining goals, scope, and requirements.
- **Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)** – Managing different phases of software development.
- **Resource Allocation** – Assigning personnel, tools, and infrastructure.
- **Risk Management** – Identifying and mitigating potential project risks.
- **Quality Assurance** – Ensuring the software meets technical and user requirements.
### **1.1 Importance of Software Management**
Effective software management ensures:
- **Timely Delivery** – Projects are completed within the scheduled timeframe.
- **Cost Control** – Budget constraints are adhered to, preventing financial overruns.
- **Quality Assurance** – Ensures high-performance, bug-free software.
- **Risk Reduction** – Identifies and mitigates potential risks early in the project.
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## **2. Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)**
The SDLC is a structured approach to software development that ensures systematic progress from concept to deployment. The main phases include:
### **2.1 Requirement Analysis**
- Involves gathering and documenting software requirements from stakeholders.
- Techniques: Interviews, surveys, use case diagrams.
### **2.2 System Design**
- Converts requirements into technical blueprints.
- Types of design: High-level design (architecture) and low-level design (detailed modules).
### **2.3 Implementation (Coding)**
- Developers write code based on design documents.
- Programming languages and frameworks depend on project requirements.
### **2.4 Testing**
- Ensures software functionality, performance, and security.
- Types: Unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
### **2.5 Deployment**
- The final software is released to users.
- Deployment strategies: Phased rollout, big bang deployment, and continuous deployment.
### **2.6 Maintenance**
- Involves updates, bug fixes, and enhancements.
- Software maintenance can be corrective, adaptive, perfective, or preventive.
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## **3. Software Development Methodologies**
Different methodologies guide the software
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3. Use case Point is an Software Estimation Method that
provide the ability to estimate an Application size and
effort from Its use Cases.
It was Developed by Gustav Karner in 1993.
The concept of Use case Point is similar to Function
Point Analysis.
Use case points measure the size of an application.
Once we know the approximate size of an application,
we can derive an expected duration for the project if
we also know (or can estimate) the team’s rate of
progress.
4. A Use case represents the set of steps defining the
interaction between an actor and the system.
A Use-Case is a series of related interactions between a
user and a system that enables the user to achieve a goal.
Use-Cases are a way to capture functional requirements of a
system. The user of the system is referred to as an ‘Actor’.
Use-Cases are fundamentally in text form.
Actor can be a user or an external system that interacts
with the system under development.
Each of these use cases have a defined target or goal to be
achieved. The actors, steps, and goals are the core
components of a use case. The use case can also have
attributes like exceptions, alternate paths, extensions, etc.
6. Number of UCP’s in a project is Based on the following
The number and complexity of the use cases in the
system
The number and complexity of the actors on the
system.
Various non-functional requirements (such as
portability, performance, maintainability) that are not
written as use cases.
The environment in which the project will be
developed (such as the language, the team’s motivation,
etc.)
7. Estimation with UCPs requires all use cases to be
written with a goal and at approximately the same
level, giving the same amount of detail. Hence, before
estimation, the project team should ensure they have
written their use cases with defined goals and at
detailed level. Use case is normally completed within a
single session and after the goal is achieved, the user
may go on to some other activity.
8. Calculate unadjusted UCPs
Adjust for technical complexity
Adjust for environmental complexity
Calculate adjusted UCPs
9. You calculate Unadjusted Use-Case Points first, by the
following steps −
Determine Unadjusted Use-Case Weight
Determine Unadjusted Actor Weight
Calculate Unadjusted Use-Case Points
10. Step 1
Find the number of transactions in each Use-
Case. If the Use-Cases are written with User Goal Levels,
a transaction is equivalent to a step in the Use-Case.
Find the number of transactions by counting the steps in
the Use-Case.
Step 2
Classify each Use-Case as Simple, Average or
Complex based on the number of transactions in the
Use-Case. Also, assign Use-Case Weight
12. Step 3
Repeat for each Use-Case and get all the Use-Case
Weights. Unadjusted Use-Case Weight (UUCW) is the
sum of all the Use-Case Weights.
Step 4
Find Unadjusted Use-Case Weight (UUCW) using the
following table
Use Case
Complexity
Use-Case Weight No of Use Cases Product
Simple 5 NSUC 5*NSUC
Average 10 NAUC 10*NAUC
Complex 15 NCUC 15*NCUC
Unadjusted Use
Case Weights
(UUCW)
5*NSUC+10*NUAC
+15*NCUC
13. Where,
NSUC is the no. of Simple Use-Cases.
NAUC is the no. of Average Use-Cases.
NCUC is the no. of Complex Use-Cases
14. An Actor in a Use-Case might be a person, another
program, etc. Some actors, such as a system with
defined API, have very simple needs and increase the
complexity of a Use-Case only slightly.
Some actors, such as a system interacting through a
protocol have more needs and increase the complexity
of a Use-Case to a certain extent.
Other Actors, such as a user interacting through GUI
have a significant impact on the complexity of a Use-
Case. Based on these differences, you can classify
actors as Simple, Average and Complex.
15. Step 1
Classify Actors as Simple, Average and Complex
and assign Actor Weights
Actor Complexity Example Actor Weight
Simple
A System with defined
API
1
Average
A System interacting
through a Protocol
2
Complex
A User interacting
through GUI
3
16. Step 2
Repeat for each Actor and get all the Actor Weights.
Unadjusted Actor Weight (UAW) is the sum of all the
Actor Weights.
Step 3
Find Unadjusted Actor Weight (UAW) using the
following table
Actor Complexity Actor Weight No of Actors product
Simple 1 NSA 1*NSA
Average 2 NAA 2*NAA
Complex 3 NCA 3*NCA
Unadjusted Actor
Weight (UAW)
1*NSA+2*NAA+3*N
CA
17. Where,
NSA is the no. of Simple Actors.
NAA is the no. of Average Actors.
NCA is the no. of Complex Actors.
18. The Unadjusted Use-Case Weight (UUCW) and the
Unadjusted Actor Weight (UAW) together give the
unadjusted size of the system, referred to as
Unadjusted Use-Case Points.
Unadjusted Use-Case Points (UUCP) = UUCW +
UAW
The next steps are to adjust the Unadjusted Use-Case
Points (UUCP) for Technical Complexity and
Environmental Complexity.
19. Step 1
Consider the 13 Factors that contribute to the
impact of the Technical Complexity of a project on Use-
Case Points and their corresponding Weights as given in
the following table
20. Factor Description Weight
T1 Distributed System 2.0
T2
Response time or
throughput performance
objectives
1.0
T3 End user efficiency 1.0
T4
Complex internal
processing
1.0
T5 Code must be reusable 1.0
T6 Easy to install .5
T7 Easy to use .5
T8 Portable 2.0
T9 Easy to change 1.0
T10 Concurrent 1.0
T11
Includes special security
objectives
1.0
T12
Provides direct access for
third parties
1.0
T13
Special user training
facilities are required
1.0
21. Many of these factors represent the project’s
nonfunctional requirements.
Step 2
For each of the 13 Factors, assess the project and rate
from 0 (irrelevant) to 5 (very important).
Step 3
Calculate the Impact of the Factor from Impact
Weight of the Factor and the Rated Value for the project
as
Impact of the Factor = Impact Weight × Rated Value
Step 4
Calculate the sum of Impact of all the Factors. This gives
the Total Technical Factor (TFactor) as given in table
22. Factor Description Weight (W)
Rated Value (0
to 5) (RV)
Impact (I = W
× RV)
T1
Distributed
System
2.0
T2
Response time
or throughput
performance
objectives
1.0
T3
End user
efficiency
1.0
T4
Complex
internal
processing
1.0
T5
Code must be
reusable
1.0
T6 Easy to install .5
T7 Easy to use .5
T8 Portable 2.0
T9 Easy to change 1.0
T10 Concurrent 1.0
T11
Includes
special security
objectives
1.0
T12
Provides direct
access for third
parties
1.0
T13
Special user
training
facilities are
required
1.0
Total Technical Factor (TFactor)
23. Step 5
Calculate the Technical Complexity Factor (TCF) as −
TCF = 0.6 + (0.01 × TFactor)
24. Step 1
Consider the 8 Environmental Factors that could affect
the project execution and their corresponding Weights
as given in the following table
25. Factor Description Weight
F1
Familiar with the project
model that is used
1.5
F2 Application experience .5
F3
Object-oriented
experience
1.0
F4 Lead analyst capability .5
F5 Motivation 1.0
F6 Stable requirements 2.0
F7 Part-time staff -1.0
F8
Difficult programming
language
-1.0
26. Step 2
For each of the 8 Factors, assess the project and rate
from 0 (irrelevant) to 5 (very important).
Step 3
Calculate the Impact of the Factor from Impact Weight
of the Factor and the Rated Value for the project as
Impact of the Factor = Impact Weight × Rated Value
Step 4
Calculate the sum of Impact of all the Factors. This gives
the Total Environment Factor (EFactor) as given in the
following table
27. Factor Description Weight (W)
Rated Value
(0 to 5) (RV)
Impact (I = W
× RV)
F1
Familiar with
the project
model that is
used
1.5
F2
Application
experience
.5
F3
Object-
oriented
experience
1.0
F4
Lead analyst
capability
.5
F5 Motivation 1.0
F6
Stable
requirements
2.0
F7 Part-time staff -1.0
F8
Difficult
programming
language
-1.0
Total Environment Factor (EFactor)
28. Step 5
Calculate the Environmental Factor (EF) as −
1.4 + (-0.03 × EFactor)
29. Calculate Adjusted Use-Case Points (UCP) as −
UCP = UUCP × TCF × EF
Advantages
UCPs are based on use cases and can be measured very
early in the project life cycle.
UCP (size estimate) will be independent of the size, skill,
and experience of the team that implements the project.
UCP based estimates are found to be close to actuals when
estimation is performed by experienced people.
UCP is easy to use and does not call for additional analysis.
Use cases are being used vastly as a method of choice to
describe requirements. In such cases, UCP is the best
suitable estimation technique.
30. UCP can be used only when requirements are written
in the form of use cases.
Dependent on goal-oriented, well-written use cases. If
the use cases are not well or uniformly structured, the
resulting UCP may not be accurate.
Technical and environmental factors have a high
impact on UCP. Care needs to be taken while assigning
values to the technical and environmental factors.
UCP is useful for initial estimate of overall project size
but they are much less useful in driving the iteration-
to-iteration work of a team.