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Software Quality Trends

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The number of defects per 1000 FP developed indicates the effectiveness of the development and testing process.

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Use of Function Points

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Functional size (function points) is universally considered to be the square meter of the software
industry. It is the only international standard used to measure the size of software in a standardized,
objective, repeatable, verifiable and defensible way. 

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Cost Estimation

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A trading company would like to replace a large legacy application with an application that offers the same functionality.

Senior management understands that an accurate estimate is the basis for a successful project. They intend to carry out an independent cost estimation by a specialized third party.

In this case study, the steps that were carried out are listed and the results are given.

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Software Productivity Versus Speed

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The Project Delivery Rate of a project expresses how many effort hours were
spent, on average, to create one function point. Speed expresses how many
function points are created per calendar month. So there is a relationship since
both metrics refer to effort and time. The question is: “How are these metrics
related?”

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Low-code Project Productivity

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A high-level analysis is given of the productivity differences between traditional languages, such as Java or .Net and low code technologies (i.e. drag and drop).

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Java Project Productivity

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Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. There is a lot of available data of Java projects in the  2021 ISBSG Development & Enhancement repository – over 2000 projects. This short paper examines the productivity of these projects.

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