NDLI: Incremental Sampling Process for Actual Function Points Validation in a Contract, An Empirical Experiment

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Arzilli, M. Gennai, P. Meli, R. Perna, F.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Customer verification of functional size measures provided by the supplier in the acceptance phase is a critical task for the correctness of contract execution. A lack of control by the customer, both in depth and in scope, can lead to relevant deviations of the actual unitary price if compared to that accepted in the bid assignment process, with potential consequences in terms of unfairness or, in some cases, illegality. In this paper we summarize an efficient and well defined approach to validate supplier's functional size measurements in order to present the validation experiment. This approach was extensively presented at SMEF 2012. The approach, although statistically based, is rigorous, since it defines clear and unambiguous game roles, and efficient, in order to spend the adequate effort to achieve the expected confidence about supplier's functional size measurement capabilities. The approach consists in applying a variation of the Incremental Sampling Method that allows the customer tuning the validation effort on the quality level of size measures provided by the supplier, detected by the gap among these measures and the ones checked and validated on a sampled base. An empirical validation experiment, which is the focus of the present paper, is presented to illustrate the advantages of the approach.
Starting Page	121
Ending Page	125
File Size	213220
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467331272
e-ISBN	9780769548401
DOI	10.1109/IWSM-MENSURA.2012.26
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-10-17
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Phase measurement Function point validation Statistical based validation Validation process Size measurement Software Software measurement Function point analysis Contracts Portfolios Tuning Sampling techniques
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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