32 NESMA 代码和描述 案例分析

32 CODE AND DESCRIPTION（代码和描述）

问题描述

在一个办事处管理系统中，保存和维护组织的办事处数据

• 关于国家，记录了以下数据：国家名称、国家代码、区号、入境日期、终止日期
• 对于办事处，记录以下数据：办事处名称、办事处代码、地址、位置、电话号码、进入日期、终止日期

在报告系统中，报告是由各种信息系统汇总而成的。办事处管理系统生成每个国家的办事处汇总。
参见下图。

为报告系统生成的汇总识别多少内部逻辑文件？

是识别一个办事处外部逻辑文件，还是识别两个国家和办事处的外部逻辑文件，或者是识别FPA表外部逻辑文件？

讨论

主要问题是如何处理在一个信息系统（本例中为办事处管理系统）中作为内部逻辑文件的数据，该数据在另一个系统中使用。

国家和办事处都是办事处管理系统中的内部逻辑文件。

然而，对于报告系统而言，只对名称感兴趣，所有其他字段对该报告系统没有意义。从报告系统可以得出结论，存在一个办事处外部逻辑文件，其中国家名称是办事处的属性。

答案

如果在报告系统的功能点分析过程中，已知信息如何在办事处管理系统中使用，则我们知道国家和办事处都是办事处管理系统的内部逻辑文件。在这种情况下，它们必须作为报告系统的外部逻辑文件计算两次。

如果在报告系统的功能点分析期间，不知道办事处管理系统中的国家和办事处是哪种类型的职能，则功能点分析员应作出假设。在本例中，办事处外部逻辑文件是最明显的选择，但也可以为国家识别FPA表外部逻辑文件。

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Problem description

In an Office Administration System, data on offices of an organization is saved and maintained.

• Regarding the countries, the following data is recorded: name of the country, country code, area code, date of entry, date of termination
• For the office, the following data is recorded: name of the office, office code, address, location, phone number, date of entry, date of termination

In a Reporting system reports are put together made from various information systems.The Office Administration System generates a summary with offices per country.
See figure below.

How many ILFs are identified for the summery generated by the Reporting system?

Is one ELF Office identified, are two ELFs Country and Office identified, or is an FPA tables ELF identified?

Discussion

The main question is how you deal with data being an ILF in one information system (the Office Administration System in this example), that is used in another system.

Country and Office are both an ILF in the Office Administration System.

For the Reporting system however only the names are of interest, all other fields have no meaning for this Reporting system. Seen from the Reporting system one could conclude that one ELF Office exists, where country name is an attribute of Office.

Solution

If during the function point analysis of the Reporting system it is known how the information is used in the Office Administration System, we know that both Country and Office are an ILF in the Office Administration System. In this case they must be counted twice as an ELF for the Reporting system.

If during the function point analysis of the Reporting system it is not known which type of functions Country and Office are in the Office Administration System, the function point analyst should make an assumption. In this example an ELF Office is the most obvious choice, but it is also possible to identify an FPA table ELF for Country.