Measurement of software size: Contributions of cosmic to estimation improvements
This paper presents 1) an outline of the design of COSMIC, the 2 nd generation of functional size measurement methods; 2) industry evidence that COSMIC has met its primary design goal to be of practical value in software project performance measurement and estimating; 3) industry evidence of the method's automation, including full automation with very high accuracy for real time embedded software specified in a Matlab Simulink environment and developed through a global network of software contractors.