Function Point Analysis with Sonar

[MiriamM]

The company I am working for as a software engineer/tester is searching
for a way to benchmark our software products in terms of Function Points.
In what way does Sonar support Function Point Analysis of software
products?
Did anyone use Sonar with a similar purpose and what is the experience?

[Freddy Mallet]

Hi Miriam,

Sonar doesn't support Function Point Analysis but all the commercial products I know, use the backfiring method to count Function Points [1] which is totally useless. Indeed, this method is based on a correlation between FP and LOC. 

Do you know what kind of function point counting algorithm you want ?

Thanks

Freddy 

[1] - http://www.functionpoints.com/stories.asp#story41

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:45 PM, MiriamM <miriam.mulders@...> wrote:

The company I am working for as a software engineer/tester is searching
for a way to benchmark our software products in terms of Function Points.
In what way does Sonar support Function Point Analysis of software
products?
Did anyone use Sonar with a similar purpose and what is the experience?

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[MiriamM]

Hi Freddy,

I don't know what kind of FP counting algorithm they want.
The company I work wants to
- know whether there is a tool that supports FP counting afterwards, so a huge bunch of mainly java code is ready to be analysed.
- benchmark our software products against competitors, in terms of FPs, but this could also be some other measure.
- know whether SONAR is good for this

...and it wants us (i.e. software engineers) to find that out.

Your reply gave me a new keyword (backfiring) to look for, and meanwhile I did some googling around.
I intend to agree with you that this is pretty useless, but on the other hand, I also get the impression that FP counting demands quite some effort, and detailed requirement descriptions, that we do not have
in an Agile environment.

Best regards, Miriam

Freddy Mallet wrote:

Hi Miriam,
Sonar
doesn't support Function Point Analysis but all the commercial
products I know, use the backfiring method to count Function Points
[1]
which is totally useless. Indeed, this method is based on a correlation
between FP and LOC.

Do you know what kind of function point counting algorithm you want ?

Thanks
Freddy

[1] - http://www.functionpoints.com/stories.asp#story41

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