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CISQ's Automated Enhancement Points Metric Becomes Object Management Group Standard for Software SizingThe Consortium for IT Software Quality™ (CISQ™), an IT industry leadership group that submits standards for measuring software quality and size, today announced that the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group® (OMG®) voted to approve the finalization of the Automated Enhancement Points specification. OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit standards consortium. According to CISQ's Executive Director, Dr. Bill Curtis, "Automated Enhancement Points improves the measurement of software size for use in productivity analysis by measuring both the functional and non-functional size of software. This is a significant advance in automated software sizing that solves problems that functional size measures have experienced in analyzing productivity during maintenance and enhancement activities." The OMG standard is available to the public for free download at http://www.omg.org/spec/AEP/. This new standard for software sizing follows on the heels of the OMG standard for Automated Function Points™ written by CISQ and approved in 2013. Automated Function Points automate the functional sizing of transaction-oriented software applications. The Automated Enhancement Points specification combines both traditional IFPUG-based function points with a similar measure for the non-functional part of the code, to account for all the work accomplished when developers make enhancements, modifications, or deletions regardless of whether it's done to functional code or non-functional code. With these two standards for function point analysis and software sizing, organizations can:
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