Recent News

• Early Function Point Analysis (English, Brazilian/Portuguese, Japanese)
  

  NESMA's world famous approach of counting function points early in the System Development Life Cycle has been translated into several languages.

• Download English (and other languages) books on FPA at no charge

  All NESMA books, except the ISO Certified Counting Practices Manual, you may download free of charge from http://books.nesma.nl. This way NESMA stimulates the further promulgation of FPA.

  Available in English (and some other languages):

  • FPA in Early Phases (a must have: FPA anytime in the system life cycle)
  • Measure! Knowledge! Action! (valuable papers on software metrics)
  • FPA for Software Enhancement(world famous)
  • Functional Sizing Reference Model
  • FPA applied to UML and Use Cases
  • FPA applied to Data Warehousing

  For Dutch books see http://boeken.nesma.nl

• Other interesting downloads

  See the Download page

• NESMA Counting Practices Manual 2.1 (ISO Certified)

  This manual is also valuable for people using the IFPUG CPM. Besides the ISO-certified Detail FPA method It describes the ISO-certified methods Indicative FPA and Estimated FPA, that can be used for early sizing. The manual also offers additional practical counting guidelines.