The Measurement Practices Committee is very pleased to announce the release of this new Guideline, available for free download from www.cosmic-sizing.org. The Guideline describes three different methods for converting sizes of software items measured by either the IFPUG, Nesma or…
Read MoreNew version 1.1.1 of the Guideline for sizing Real-Time Software now available
The Measurement Practices Committee has reviewed the Guideline for sizing Real-time Software, version 1.1. The review has resulted in improvements for readability and ease of understanding, particularly for two example cases and for measuring error messages in real-time software. No…
Read MoreCOSMIC Certification exams world-wide
We are giving more and more opportunities to people who want to be certified in the COSMIC method and to take the examination on-line, in their own language, anywhere in the world. In the next few weeks there will be…
Read MoreCOSMIC wins Best Paper award at ICEAA Conference
COSMIC is delighted to announce that a paper entitled: ‘Measurement of Software Size: Contributions of COSMIC to Estimation Improvements’ received the joint Best Paper Award at the 2016 ICEAA International Training Symposium in Bristol in October 2016. ICEAA is the…
Read MoreAgenda for sixth UK COSMIC Special Interest Group meeting
The sixth meeting will be held at University College London, 66–72 Gower Street, London on Friday 21st October, from 10:30 for 11:00, to 16:00. If you plan to attend, please e-mail me at cr.symons@btinternet.com I will send full joining details….
Read MorePrice Systems’ TruePlanning for Software accepts COSMIC size measurement data
In a vote of confidence in the COSIC method, Price Systems has implemented direct capture of COSMIC size measurement data as input to its ‘TruePlanning’ software estimation model. COSMIC sizes are converted directly to effort without conversion via SLOC or…
Read MoreCase Study: A mobile app and a web application (revised version)
This Case Study presents the measurement results of applying the COSMIC-FSM method (Version 4.0.1) to the “Restaurant Management System”. This system is composed of hardware and software components. The software component named “Resto-Sys” includes two parts: a mobile app and…
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 MoreNext UK COSMIC SIG meeting, 21st October
The next (sixth) meeting of the UK COSMIC Special Interest Group will be held on Friday 21st October at University College London, courtesy of the University’s Software Systems Engineering Group. UCL is located close to Euston station. As usual the…
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…
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