Date of Award

12-1992

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

First Advisor

Richard L. Murphy, PhD

Abstract

This study investigated the results of measuring software support of Oracle database applications and estimating the effort and schedule required to provide support. Software measurement was accomplished with a variant of the function points metric, called Mark II function points, which is comprised of three weighted parameters, inputs, entities, and outputs. A technique for mapping Mark II function points to Oracle DBMS components was developed, and the size of the software support for each project, per team, was measured by tabulating and weighting the number of inputs, entities, and outputs that are added, changed, and/or deleted. Software support effort was measured in work- hours and schedule in calendar-weeks for given levels of function points. A data collection program was written to assist with tabulating the measurements and also provided an option for sizing the support by analogy. Observations were collected for 12 projects ranging up to 50 function points. The between software support measurement in Mark II function points and the effort or schedule was extensively analyzed for one and two person teams. A relationship determined by regression analysis was shown to be statistically significant for both effort and schedule.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-GSS-LSY-92D-4

DTIC Accession Number

ADA259686

Comments

Presented to the Faculty of the School of Systems and Logistics of the Air Force Institute of Technology

The author's Vita page is omitted.

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