Function Points (FP) are widely used as a basis to estimate software development cost and efforts. At the requirements level several estimation tools have been developed, but these tools use unified ...

The Object Management Group (OMG) has adopted the Automated Function Point Specification (AFP), which automates the counting of function points.

Function point counting as the standard unit of output used to analyse and measure the quality, productivity and cost of building and operating applications is a challenging part of software analysis.