Empirical Investigation of the Effect of the Lines of Code on Function Point in Embedded Software

The embedded software has grown complex and pervasive enough to attract the attention of the computer scientists and the researchers. As the embedded software market has grown in the last decade and will continue to grow in the coming years. The embedded software in majority are meant for performing in real time constraints in robust manner. So this makes the researchers to study the source code of embedded software and find out the relationship between the Lines of code and the function points in the embedded software. As the function points is supposed to be the predictors of the complexity of the software so the relationship between the Function Point and Lines of code can provide an insight to the developer to produce more reliable and less complex embedded software. For the empirical study the five versions of the embedded software namely gSOAP were taken. Then the collected data is analyzed using a source code analyzer Resource Standard Metrics (RSM) to get the data values for Lines of code and Function Point. Result shows that the Function Points and Lines of code has a positive relationship which means that as the Lines of code increases Function point also increases. However further empirical study are needed before the results can be generalized.