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Software engineering

a size measure based on the inputs, outputs, inquiries and files a program handles, used to estimate development effort.

In software engineering, function points refers to a size measure based on the inputs, outputs, inquiries and files a program handles, used to estimate development effort. This meaning comes from Albrecht (1983) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.[1]

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References

Albrecht, A. J., & Gaffney, J. E. (1983). Software Function, Source Lines of Code, and Development Effort Prediction: A Software Science Validation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-9(6), 639-648. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.1983.235271

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