used in the "Validation of the Component-Based Method for Sofware Size Estimation".

-- *.sav are in SPSS format

-- *.por are in portable SPSS format

are pure text data files with tab as delimiter. They are the same files as *.sav.

modules.* is the original data file with the data for every component.

projects.* contains the data related to MarkII function points.


                            --  SYSFILE INFO  --

File modules.sav      7 variables and 1.537 cases

File Type:  SPSS Data File

N of Cases: 1537

Total # of Defined Variable Elements: 7

Data Are Not Weighted

Data Are Compressed

File Contains Case Data

Variable Information:


Name                                                                   Position

YEAR      academic year                                                       1
          Format: F2

CODE      code of the group                                                   2
          Format: F2

TYPECOMP  type of component                                                   3
          Format: F1

          Value    Label

              1    menu
              2    input
              3    report/inquiry

OPTMENU   number of choices                                                   4
          Format: F3

DATAELEM  number of data elements                                             5
          Format: F5

RELATION  number of relations                                                 6
          Format: F5

LOC       loc of the module                                                   7
          Format: F5


                            --  SYSFILE INFO  --

File projects.sav	10 variables and 46 cases

File Type:  SPSS Data File

N of Cases: 46

Total # of Defined Variable Elements: 10

Data Are Not Weighted

Data Are Compressed

File Contains Case Data


Variable Information:


Name                                                                   Position

YEAR      academic year                                                       1
          Format: F2

CODE      code of the group                                                   2
          Format: F2

LOC       lines of code                                                       3
          Format: F8

NOC       number of components                                                4
          Format: F3

NPEOPLE   number of people                                                    5
          Format: F2

NTRNSMK2  number of transactions mkii                                         6
          Format: F3

INPTMKII  number of total inputs (data elements over all trans.)              7
          Format: F8

ENTMKII   number of entities referenced                                       8
          Format: F8

OUTMKII   number of outputs (data elements over all transactions)             9
          Format: F8

UFPMKII   * No label *                                                       10
          Format: F8.2