Features

SCOPE is the most sophisticated function point counting software available on the market today. SCOPE specialises in full configuration management of your function point counts and has been designed for organisations that need to invest in a tool to enable them to support a mature function point counting program. SCOPE exports count results into state of the art project estimation tools, such as KnowledgePlan™ so you can estimate effort, cost and schedule.

It is the only Function Point Counting tool on the market that is fully multi-lingual and multi-user. It is conformant to ISO 14143 and the IFPUG 4.2 and 4.3 Function Point Analysis (FPA) technique for sizing software. It is a powerful combination of easy to use features and comprehensive functionality. SCOPE makes it easy to measure the Functional Size of both software applications and software projects.

SCOPE was designed by certified function point counters with over 15 years counting experience. It is the only function point counting software that works the way your work i.e.. your software projects often impact more than one application and each software application may have multiple change requests in a Release and they all need to be counted. SCOPE allows you to record multiple counts across multiple applications and then aggregate them to size a Project. It also enables you to record multiple counts on the same application for each Change Request in a Release. The Change Requests counted can belong to different  Projects and their size can be aggregated at Project Level or you can report the total Release size for an Application. You can keep detailed notes linked to your counts so you have an ongoing history of all your counts, and accumulate knowledge of your software applications functionality over time. Function Point counting just gets faster and faster the more information you add to your model.

Functional Features

Graphically models and sizes software functionality at all stages of development from planning through to production, every change request or enhancement can be counted and its size separately reported

Repository of Applications allows you to record all  Release, and all their Change Requests with their sizes.

Repository for all your Projects, record which applications they impacted , the size of the impact and the project delivery rate (PDR in hours per function point).

 
• Reports the functional size of sub-systems, releases, and ‘what-if’ scenarios for input into project estimates of cost, resources and duration.
   
 
• Provides a quantitative audit trail of functional changes to each software function over time; mapping change to a specific change request, release and/or project. Will automatically record for each change to the count, who changed it, and on which date.
   
 
• The only function point counting tool that tracks and measures project 're-work' and scope variations for input into pricing negotiations.
   
 
• Collects mandatory project attributes for productivity comparisons and automatic submission to the International Software Benchmarking Standards Groups (ISBSG) Project Repository.
   
 
• Has fully flexibility on which projects you accept to update the baseline and which ones you want to hold over and still keep the count. You can size your development or Enhancement project and include conversion functionality, then update your baseline Application count and select to exclude conversion from the Baseline. When you next have enhancements on the application, use the baseline model and then record one or multiple enhancements and choose which ones will update the baseline.
 
• Allows multiple concurrent independent counts on the same baseline, without overwriting, but combines them to update the baseline.
 
• Allows a single repository of counts for all your applications and projects that can be updated simultaneously by multiple counters at multiple locations (SCOPE Corporate Multi-user)
 
• If you do not already have a baseline count for your software, then SCOPE allows you to count your enhancement projects individually then select to merge them to create your template baseline count.
 
• Imports existing counts from Excel® and if required select to merge them to create an aggregated framework of all the functionality for your future baseline count
 
• Imports  all existing detailed FP count related data from Function Point WORKBENCH™ - now inbuilt module imports FPW 4 to FPW 7.

System and Technical Features

• Imports your existing function point counts from older generation function point counting software repositories including Function Point WORKBENCH™ and MS EXCEL®
• User can dynamically select the language that SCOPE displays screens and reports e.g. English, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch etc.
• Stores all historical counts in a controlled central corporate database that is maintainable by multiple counters at the same time
• Microsoft® compatible database for flexible customised reporting. Includes over 40 reports that can be viewed online and with a mouse click stored as a WORD, EXCEL , HTML document.
• Windows compatible short cuts for quick data entry
• Designed by internationally recognised Functional Sizing expert Pam Morris author and reviewer for IFPUG CPM 4 series
• Windows compatible : 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7

 

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Screen showing the List of projects for the Organisation. A Project can be recorded to impact multiple Applications and have many different counts associated with it. The AMS Development Project has 6 counts listed , 5 against the AMS Application and one against the ARLS application

 

 

 Screen Listing all the Applications stored in the SCOPE Function Point Repository, the baseline size over each release and the size of each Change Request recorded as an Enhancement Count for the Release.

LHS Screen showing the functional decomposition of the Application and the impact of the project on the Application baseline is highlighted with the coloured arrows. SCOPE allows multiple change requests to impact an application. Each Change Request can be recorded simultaneously. A Change Request impacting the software is linked to a Project. SCOPE allows for multiple projects to impact an Application at any one time.