At the recent IWSM in Beijing, one of the most impressive presentations was from Dylan Ren of Measures Technology LLC, which described the excellent progress being made in the use of COSMIC in China. His presentation is available here….

The paper describes procedure for automated CFP measurement of requirements expressed using the Object-Oriented Hypermedia method. The approach is applied to a set of industrial web applications and delivers sizes that correlate much better with effort than other size measures….

The Measurement Practices Committee is pleased to issue a new Case, the Industrial Automation (Robot) Case Study. This case study illustrates the application of the COSMIC software measurement method to measure the functional size of user applications for production tasks…

Dear All, The Measurement Practices Committee is pleased to issue ‘What is a COSMIC Function Point’ in Chinese. We hope it will find its way in China and thank Yang Hanqin (China) for its translation. Download

Version 1.0 updated to 1.0.1, no substantial changes, a few clarifications. Download

Version 1.0 updated to 1.0.1 to align with Measurement Manual version 4.0.2: outdated document style adjusted, context diagram redrawn, ‘Cfsu’ replaced by ‘CFP’. No changes in content. Download

For those interested in a very short introduction to COSMIC, the COSMIC group has published a 7 page document explaining in simple terms a single topic: What is a COSMIC Function Point? This document is intended for a large audience…

This new version, called ‘Guideline on the Accuracy of COSMIC Function Points’, provides an overview of the factors that influence the quality of a functional size measurement, particularly a COSMIC size measurement, and advises how to organize the measurement process…

UKSMA Autumn Conference 7 September 2018 in London Requirements and Measurement Call for Papers This conference focuses on perhaps the most important item, the Statements of Requirements (SOR). The SOR can of course take many forms to satisfy the needs…