COSMIC is very pleased to present the Annual Report 2016. A lot has been achieved with the COSMIC method in the past year. Some of the highlights that we want to share with you: International cooperation, next to metrics associations…
Read MoreUpdate of the Mexican COSMIC standard NMX-I-19761-NYCE-2017
As of today, March 17 2017, the Mexican COSMIC standard has been updated. This will take effect 60 days after the publication in the Official Federation Diary. The COSMIC community is pleased that the COSMIC standard remains an important standard…
Read MoreNew COSMIC IAC members in Germany and Brazil
We are pleased to announce the appointment for a term of three years, from November 2016 to October 2019 of: Cíntia Aguiar Batista as one of the two COSMIC IAC representatives to Brazil, in replacement of Mr. Mauricio Aguiar, and…
Read MoreEstimation for Mobile and Cloud environments
Estimation for Mobile and Cloud Environments (Extracted from’ Modern Software Engineering Methodologies for Mobile and Cloud Environments’) Estimation of cost, effort and schedule is generally very important for commercial software development and maintenance. However, until recently it was not an…
Read MoreNew Case Study: A mobile app and a web application
COSMIC is very pleased to announce that a new Case Study is available showing the results of applying COSMIC functional size measurement (Version 4.0.1) to a “Restaurant Management System”. The software of this system has two parts: a mobile app…
Read MoreA new COSMIC International Advisory Council member for France
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Eric Bronca as the second COSMIC IAC representative to France, in replacement of the previous representative from France (Mrs Sophie Stern), and for a term of three years, from November 2015 to…
Read MoreGreat COSMIC contributions
at CNMES ’15 in Mexico
On September 2-4 the CNMES ’15 conference will be held in Mexico city. The conference will have a number of great contributions from the COSMIC community: Alain Abran (COSMIC Chairman / ÉTS Montréal) will give presentations on Software Estimation with…
Read MoreCOSMIC introduction presentation
on the COCOMO forum
Bruce Reynolds, one of our IAC-representatives to the United States, will be giving a presentation titled “Introduction to the COSMIC method of measuring software” at the 30th International Forum on COCOMO and Systems/Software Cost Modeling. This forum will be held in Arlington,…
Read MoreGuideline for Early or Rapid COSMIC FSM
Approaches for Early or Rapid measurement The COSMIC method provides a standardized way of measuring a functional size of software from the domains commonly referred to as ‘business application’ (or ‘MIS’), ‘real-time’ and infrastructure software, certain types of scientific/engineering software…
Read MoreStrong COSMIC presence on IWSM Mensura 2015
The program of the IWSM Mensura 2015 conference is now final . The program contains a strong presence of COSMIC related material: Papers: Accounting for Non-functional and Project requirements: COSMIC and IFPUG developments Charles Symons and Talmon Ben-Cnaan A process…
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