An experimental study on the conversion between IFPUG and COSMIC functional size measurement units

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2010-03-01

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Cuadrado-Gallego, Juan J.
Buglione, Luigi
Dominguez-Alda, Maria J.
Fernandez de Sevilla, Marian
Antonio Gutierrez de Mesa, J.
Demirörs, Onur

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The adoption of functional size measurement (FSM) methods in software organizations is growing. In particular, special attention is being paid to the COSMIC method, because of its novelties against 1st generation FSM methods such as IFPUG FPA. One of the main problems facing organizations wanting to use COSMIC is how to properly convert the software functional size of the projects in their portfolio measured by the previously adopted FSM method to the size measured by the new method.

Subject Keywords

Software Engineering, Functional Size Measurement (FSM), IFPUG, COSMIC, International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG), Repository

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56531

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INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2009.12.001

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J. J. Cuadrado-Gallego, L. Buglione, M. J. Dominguez-Alda, M. Fernandez de Sevilla, J. Antonio Gutierrez de Mesa, and O. Demirörs, “An experimental study on the conversion between IFPUG and COSMIC functional size measurement units,” INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, pp. 347–357, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56531.