GUI of esrcTool: A tool to estimate the Software Risk and cost

Function Point Analysis was developed first by Allan J. Albrecht in the mid 1970s. It was an attempt to overcome difficulties associated with lines of code as a measure of software size, and to assist in developing a mechanism to predict effort associated with software development. Function Point is a well known established method to estimate the size of software projects. There are several areas of the software engineering in which we can use the function point analysis (FPA) like project planning, project construction, software implementation etc. In this paper we have implemented the architecture of the esrcTool in C Language. This tool is used for two different purposes, firstly, to estimate the risk in the software and secondly to estimate the cost of the software. The esrcTool is based on SRAEM i.e. Software Risk Assessment and Estimation Model, because in this model FP is used as an input variable, and in order to determine the cost of the software we have used the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group Release Report (ISBSG).