What Was New in Function Point WORKBENCH™ Release 6.0 -
Professional Edition
The Function Point WORKBENCH™ Release 6.0 both enhances the features first
provided in Release 5.8 and adds new features.
The Function Point WORKBENCH™ provides full support
for the function point counting standards defined in the IFPUG Counting
Practices Manuals 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2.
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Perform Function Point Analysis to any of the IFPUG
4.0, 4.1 or 4.2 standard [5.8/6.0]
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Convert Function Point Counts between the IFPUG 4.0,
4.1 and 4.2 standards [5.8/6.0]
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Standardised main menu items [5.8/6.0]
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Tool bar for fast access to commonly used functions
[5.8/6.0]
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Startup tips for advanced users [5.8/6.0]
Startup tips can be customised and extended from within the WORKBENCH.
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Browse for database [5.8/6.0]
Find all WORKBENCH databases beneath a specified location on the local
machine or server
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Browse for Counts in a WORKBENCH database [5.8/6.0]
Summarise all Counts within a WORKBENCH database showing
their name, size, status and other attributes
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Long logical transaction names [5.8/6.0]
Logical transactions can be up to 255 characters
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Context sensitive menus (right click) [5.8/6.0]
Separate menus are available on logical transactions, components and the
functional hierarchy background
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Label selection from drop-down list in toolbar
[5.8/6.0]
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Flyover display of transaction and component details
[5.8/6.0]
Tailorable from the toolbar
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Count / Count View toggle [5.8/6.0]
Graphically highlight scope and size of functions within a Count View
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Quick Macro Estimation [5.8/6.0]
Display cost & effort estimates within a flyover
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Enhanced functional hierarchy cursor highlighting [6.0]
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Group deletion of highlighted logical transactions
[6.0]
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Enhanced file attribute visibility in file list [6.0]
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Functional hierarchy font selection [6.0]
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Logical transaction multiplier shortcut [6.0]
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Functional hierarchy zoom shortcut [6.0]
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Independent hypertext links from Count notes and
documents [6.0]
Cross-reference logical transactions, logical files, documents and general
system characteristics back to their original source documents or to further
fully detailed descriptions
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New: Work Item / Use Case Analysis report [5.8/6.0]
Report the scope & size of functionality within one or more Work Items or
Use Cases
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Enhanced: Functions to Notes Cross-Reference report
[5.8/6.0]
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Enhanced: Notes to Functions Cross-Reference report
[5.8/6.0]
These reports now include both Transactions & Files
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Enhanced: Hierarchy Diagram report [6.0]
Select alternative font sizes
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Function Point WORKBENCH™ - Publisher software tool for
fsmML (XML) based reporting [6.0]
See fsmML (XML) below
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Output function point count data as fsmML (XML)
documents [6.0]
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fsmML (XML) schema definition at http://www.charismatek.com/fsmML1.0/IFPUG/XSD/IFPUG.xsd
[6.0]
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Function Point WORKBENCH™ - Publisher software tool for
fsmML (XML) based reporting [6.0]
Transform the fsmML representation of a Function Point Count generated by
the WORKBENCH into a formatted HTML report for viewing via a standard
web-browser
A range of WORKBENCH detail reports are supported including the full
graphical Hierarchy Diagram report
Reports defined using customisable and extendible report templates expressed
using XSLT and cascading style sheets
Reports support multiple languages through an extensible dictionary -
current languages are English, German, Portuguese and Korean but you can
easily add others!
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Calculate software
productivity rate ranges and likely values for a selection of development
types [6.0]
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Cut and paste
calculated productivity rates as Productivity Sink values into the WORKBENCH
[6.0]
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Customise and
calibrate the Productivity Rate Calculator to address the type and rate of
software development achieved within your environment [6.0]
The Function Point WORKBENCH™ 6.0 running on an
Apple Macintosh under Virtual PC.
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