The following five major steps were followed for this project: 
1.	Literature Review.  This step consisted in conducting a literature review on three aspects: utilization of FP to measure real-time software, identification of extensions that had been proposed to adapt FP to this type of software and analysis of these proposals.
2.	 Proposal of an extension to FP for real-time software.  From the analysis of previous attempts to extend FP, a new approach to adapting FP for the measurement of real-time software was developed. 
3.	Field tests of the proposal. The third step of the project consisted in measuring some real-time software applications.  Since this project was supported and financed by three large North American organizations (power supply and telecommunications areas) and a Japanese organization (automotive), the measurement of at least one real-time application from each partner was conducted. 
4.	Analysis of the counting results. The fourth step of the project consisted in carrying out an analysis of the measurement results and of the measurement process including (Jacquet and Abran, 1997):   
•	Perception of the application specialists participating in the measurement sessions with respect to the coherence between the counting results and the size of the application measured.
•	Time required to identify and measure the function types.
•	Difficulty in learning and applying the basic concepts as well as the counting procedures and rules of the proposal. 
•	Comparison between the measurement procedures and results obtained with the proposal and the standard version of FP (IFPUG, version 4.0).         
5.	Public release. The last step of the project consisted in preparing a public release of the proposed measurement method including a description of the extension proposed, the counting procedures and rules, an overview of the field tests and comments on the counting results from an measurement instrumentation perspective.