confirmation email as a Data Element Type - Function Points [closed]

Question

I understand that a confirmation message on a UI is counted as a Data Element Type (DET). What if my confirmation message is an alert box on a UI plus an email confirmation.

Should i count it as 1 DET or 2 DETs

Thanks

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure it counts as 2 DET's since I can't think of a way it could be seen as a single one:

• the user is notified in two completly different ways.
• the software needs to check both confirmations, the input actually consits of two data elements.
• According to this a DET is to decide if this data element is required and this can possibly differ.

But I'm not an IT professor, this is only the logical value.