Applicability range of object points method for estimating software cost

The article reviews the method of estimating the complexity of software projects called Object Points, which is a kind of the Function Points method, but applied to software written with using of the object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm or completely based on it. Just as for any software, the problem of estimating the cost of object-oriented software products remains relevant and rather complex task, so specialists must have the most advanced techniques at their disposal. This research considers the features of object-oriented (OO) software products, the disadvantages of applying standard metrics to them, special qualities of the Object Points method in comparison with them, as well as its detailed description.