Overview of COSMIC Taskforces on the Sizing of Quantum, Artificial Intelligence (AI), DevOps Applications and Technical Debt & Non-Functional Requirements

With the advent of large-scale software development came the need to better plan, monitor and control the economics of software development, including in new software development paradigms. The COSMIC organization has initiated four task forces to tackle current industry challenges in software measurement:

International taskforce leaders & contributions

The 4 COSMIC taskforces are led by international experts in the respective areas of expertise:

Dr. Ali Idri for AI software.
Dr. Hassan Soubra for Quantum software
Dr. Sylvie Trudel for the sizing of DevOps portfolio
Dr. Thomas Fehlmann for the sizing of Technical Debt & Non-Functional Requirements (NFR)

The involvement of experts from multiple countries is deemed crucial for achieving a comprehensive consensus. The availability and international recognition of standardized measurement standards for software sizing in emerging technological contexts are of practical interest to organizations, both small and large, on a global scale. To support its four Taskforce leaders, the COSMIC Group, in collaboration with ETS and the MITACS Elevation program, has enlisted the expertise of 2 post-doctoral researchers:

  • Dr. Tuna Hacaloglu (post-doc)
  • …… (post doc)

Leveraging of deliverables 

The results of this project will be widely disseminated by scientific publications and by the COSMIC group via contributions to standards, training activities, modifications to their professional certification programs, and state of the art COSMIC Students competitions. These deliverables can be incorporated into our software engineering and IT project management courses.

Long-term impacts & outcomes

The availability and international recognition of such standard measurement standards for sizing in Quantum, AI software, DevOps portfolio and Technical Debt & Non-Functional Requirements contexts is of practical interest to software organizations and their customer bases, for both small and large organizations at an international level.