Scaling Data Marts: An Appropriateness of a Functional Metric

• Angélica Toffano Seidel caixa Econômica Federal
• Káthia Marçal de Oliveira UCB
• Rildo Ribeiro dos Santos UCB

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2003.15699

Abstract

Estimate the size of a project to define time, cost and resources is a continuous necessity of the companies. In this direction, several boardings had appeared with the objective of estimate the size of software, like the Analysis for Points of Function - one of boardings more used by the market currently. With the appearing of Data Mart technology and the increase of the demand of development of these systems, the companies had started to also demand estimate of these products to allow a better management in the production of them. Data Mart systems, however, have proper characteristics and particularitities in the development different of the traditional systems. So, it makes necessary the adequacy of one of the boardings of measurement of traditional systems for Data Mart systems. In this article, we consider one adequacy of the Analysis for Points of Function and present results of application of this proposal in real projects of Caixa Econômica Federal.

Keywords: Functional measurement, Data Mart, size estimation, Function Point Analysis

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