After requests from numerous commercial enterprises, the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) was formed in 2010 by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the Object Management Group (OMG), an international IT standards organization. CISQ was chartered to create international standards for automating the measurement of size and structural quality from software source code. During early executive forums held in Washington DC, Frankfurt, and Bangalore, five measures were selected for initial specification, among which was a request to automate the counting of Function Points from source code based as closely as possible on counting guidelines from the International Function Points User Group (IFPUG)... Read more →