What You'll Find Here

The free function point manual can be downloaded at MetricsTraining.Com or Function Point Training Manual . The manual is approximately 100 pages long and includes exercises to reinforce many concepts. A shorter article Fundamentals of Function Points is available.

Major Topic Covered in the Free Function Point Training Manual include:

Function Point Counting Process
Establishing the Boundary
Identifying RET's, DET's, and FTR's
External Inputs
External Outputs
External Inquiries
Internal Logical Files
External Interface Files
General System Characteristics
Case Studies

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Instructor Packets are available for those professors and instructors that would like to encompass function point analysis in existing or new Software Engineering, MIS, or a Software Metrics Course.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Which means others can distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work, even commercially, as long as they credit , David Longstreet, for the original creation.

The manual is viewed over 300,000 times annually by individuals in 80 different countries and over 500 different universities.

Title: Function Point Training and Analysis Manual
Author: David H. Longstreet
ISBN: 0-9702439-3-6
Format: Microsoft Word & PDF
Last Revision: March 2008
Original Publish Date: February 2001.
Total Views: Over 1,000,000!