INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC STANDARD 19515 First edition 2019-05 Information technology - Object Management Group Automated Function Points (AFP), 1.0 Reference number ISO/IEC 19515:2019(E) IEC [s IS0/IEC2019 IS0/IEC 19515:2019(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @IS0/IEC2019 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, or required in the context of its implementation, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either IsO at the address below or Iso's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office CP 40i: Ch. de Blandonnet 8 CH-1214 Vernier, Geneva Phone:+4122 749 0111 Fax: +41 22 749 09 47 Email: [email protected] Website: www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii @ IS0/IEC 2019 - All rights reserved IS0/IEC 19515:2019(E) Contents Page Foreword .iv Introduction 1 Scope. 1 1.1 Purpose. 1.2 Applicability 1 1.3 Limitations. 1 2 Conformance and Compliance 1 2.1 Conformance. 1 2.2 Compliance. 2 2.3 Consistency with IFPUG CPM 2 3 References. 3 3.1 Normative 3 3.2 Non-normative 3 Terms and Definitions 3 2 5 Symbols (and abbreviated terms) .5 6 Additional Information 5 6.1 Overview of Function Points 5 6.2 Function Point Usage Scenarios. 6 6.3 Inputs to Automated Function Point Counting 7 6.4 Outline of the Function Point Counting Process 7 6.5 The Application Model. 8 6.5.1 The Application Model Elements. 8 6.5.2 Detection of Data Functions. 9 6.5.3 Detection of Transactional Functions 14 6.5.4 Detection of Internal Versus External Logical Files 15 7 Determine Functional Size (Normative) 17 7.1 Entering Application Model Elements into Functional Sizing. 17 7.1.1 RepresentationoftheApplicationModelinKDM 17 7.1.2 Translating KDM Application Model Elements into SMM Inputs 18 7.2 Determine Data Function Size 18 7.3 Determine Transactional Function Size 19 7.4 Determine Function Point Size 22 7.5 Output Generation. 22 7.6 Structured Metrics Meta-Model (SMM) Representation 23 7.6.1 Computing Automated Function Point Size.. 23 7.6.2 Computing External Output Size.. .24 7.6.3 Computing External Input Size. 25 7.6.4 Computing Internal Logical File Size and External Interface File Size .26 8 References. .27 @ IS0/IEC 2019 - All rights reserved ii