Papers that report research or practice results with the COSMIC method
Quality Measurements
- Defect Density Measurements Using COSMIC
- Towards the Development of a Defect Detection Requirements Tool for COSMIC Functional Size Measurement
- Using COSMIC method with system analysis artifacts based on object oriented approach and UML notation (slides)
- Measurement for improving accuracy of estimates
Software Metrics (general)
- COSMIC sizing in Agile projects
- Predict the PDR in a Software Factory Contract
- The Economic Importance of Business Software Systems Size Measurement
- IFPUG function points or COSMIC function points?
- From Story Points to COSMIC Function Points in Agile Software Development
- A Comparison of the Key Differences between the IFPUG and COSMIC Functional Size Measurement Methods
Automated Software Measurement
- COSMIC Measurement for Web Applications
- Automated Software Estimation with ScopeMaster
- COSMIC Examples – What could they mean as an IT project?
- Verifying the Accuracy of Automation Tools
- Automated Functional Size Estimation using Business Process Models with UPROM Method
- A Model-Based and Automated Approach to Size Estimation of Embedded Software Components
Business Case for metrics benefits
- MkII FP to COSMIC Size Conversions
- Using COSMIC to reduce Information Asymmetry
- Effort Estimation with Story Points and COSMIC Function Points
- Sizing software by counting ‘one, two, many’ – does it matter? (Yes)
- Selection of a functional sizing methodology
- Factors on the Acceptance of Measurement Procedure
Conversion of Functional Size
- MkII FP to COSMIC Size Conversions
- Convertibility of Measures Tool-based (slides)
- Theoretical and Probabilistic Conversion Model between FPA and COSMIC Measurement Method (slides)
- On the Conversion between the Sizes of Software Products in the Life Cycle
- Exploring the Convertibility between IFPUG and COSMIC FP (slides)
- IFPUG function points or COSMIC function points?
Embedded & Real-Time software
- Estimation of Real-Time Software Component Size
- Estimation of Real-Time Software Code Size using COSMIC FSM
- On the relationship between functional size and software code size
- Using COSMIC for Real-Time software
- FSM of an Aerospace Realtime Embedded System
- A Refined FSM Procedure for Real-Time Embedded Software Requirements Expressed using the Simulink Model (slides)
Estimating
- Quantitative Functional Change Impact Analysis in Activity Diagrams
- Web Effort Estimation: Function Point Analysis vs. COSMIC
- Estimation of Real-Time Software Code Size using COSMIC FSM
- We prefer Facts over Stories
- Estimating with software size
- COSMIC Examples – What could they mean as an IT project?
Functional Size Measurement
- Quantitative Functional Change Impact Analysis in Activity Diagrams
- Web Effort Estimation: Function Point Analysis vs. COSMIC
- Investigating Functional and Code Size Measures for Mobile Applications
- Using COSMIC for the Functional Size Measurement of Distributed Applications in Cloud Environments
- FSM of an Aerospace Realtime Embedded System
- COSMIC User Story Standard
Metrics implementation
- Manage the automotive embedded software development cost & productivity with the automation of a Functional Size Measurement Method (COSMIC)
- Successes and challenges experienced in implementing a measurement program in small software organizations
- COSMIC-based Project Management in Agile Software Development and Mapping onto related CMMI-DEV Process Areas
- COSMIC as a Software Requirements Improvement Mechanism
- Implementation of the COSMIC method in Social Insurance Institution in Poland (slides)
- Changing from FPA to COSMIC
Miscellaneous
- Using COSMIC to reduce Information Asymmetry
- New IT Model Contract Changing Pricing Method
- Agility and COSMIC Function Points in JIRA
- Towards the Adoption of International Standards in Enterprise Architecture Measurement
- CASE STUDY: APPLYING THE COSMIC ISO 19761 MEASUREMENT METHOD ON AN MRI MESH GENERATION MEDICAL APPLICATION
- Defect Density Measurements Using COSMIC
Model Driven Software Development
- Sizing Web Applications in a Model-Driven Development Environment
- Automating the Measurement of Functional Size of Conceptual Models in an MDA Environment
- Design of a Functional Size Measurement Procedure for a Model-Driven Software Development Method
- Measuring the Functional Size in an MDA Environment
Non-Functional Requirements
- Non-Functional Requirements and COSMIC Sizing Practitioner’s Guide
- Specification and Measurement of System Configuration Non Functional Requirements
- Designing a Measurement Method for the Portability Non-Functional Requirement
- Designing a Measurement Method for the Portability Non-Functional Requirement (NFR) (slides)
- A framework for system portability requirements
- Specification and Measurement Derived from System Operations Non Functional Requirements