Application - Function Points - Overview

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This panel will not contain any information until a snapshot is generated.

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If your global license key does not grant you the right to count Function Points, a banner message will be displayed explaining this situation:

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The Overview panel shows information about:

Automated Function Points (AFP)

The total number of Automated Function Points (AFP) identified in the Application during the analysis/snapshot, divided into:

Application - Function Points - AFP Count

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Introduction

The AFP Count panel enables you to:

view the default Function Point data for Transactional Functions and Data Functions as produced in the most recent snapshot
calibrate the default results if required:
- change the type (ILF, EIF, EI, EO, EQ) and the value of each Data Function or Transactional Function that has been identifed via the pre-defined or custom rules
- Delete, merge or unmerge objects
view the calibrated functional size overall, and separately for Transactional Functions and Data Functions
view the number of Empty Transactional Functions (highlighted in pink):

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Application - Function Points - Settings

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The Settings panel enables you to configure various options:

By default for the compute action, the CAST Transaction Configuration Center will assume various default settings:

Option

Description

Activate automatic configuration refresh

Console implements an automatic "configuration loading mechanism" based on the standard .TCCSetup files present in the AIP Core installation folder and any installed extension folders. TCCSetup files (standard configuration files) contain configuration parameters to automatically define Entry Points, Data Entities, End points and Excluded Items and are known as Packages.

Application - Function Points - Enhancement

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The Enhancement panel enables you to view Enhancement Size data about your Application. This data is derived from theEnhancement measure (from CISQ/OMG) used during the snapshot process (see Application - Config - Enhancement Measure). You can find out more about the two Enhancement measures that are available in CAST OMG-compliant Automated Function Points.

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This panel will not contain any information until a snapshot is generated.

1	This selector indicates which snapshot is currently being displayed. If you have multiple snapshots, you can choose the one you require using the drop down:

Application - Function Points on Documentation - V2

Application - Function Points - Overview

Application - Function Points - AFP Count

Introduction

Application - Function Points - Settings

Application - Function Points - Enhancement