Welcome

Welcome to the official website of the Common Software Measurement International Consortium , the 'COSMIC' organization. Here you will find all the information you need to know about the COSMIC functional size measurement method, the support that is available, and the organization behind it.

COSMIC is a voluntary, world-wide grouping of software metrics experts.  Started in 1998, COSMIC has developed the most advanced method of measuring a functional size of software.  Such sizes are important as measures of software project work-output and for estimating project effort, etc

The method, is applicable to business, real-time and infrastructure software, is easy to learn and simple to use.  The method is entirely 'open'; all method documentation is available in the public domain for free download.

Via the Portal,you can obtain all the method documentation, participate in the further development of the method, and tell others of your experiences.

For more information contact your the International Advisory Council member for your country.  Alternatively, go via the Portal to Forums, register as a Member and pose your question or discussion point.

(Updated 15th February 2010)