Papers from the UKSMA/COSMIC ‘International Conference on Software Metrics & Estimating’ held in London in October are available from www.uksma.co.uk.
This was a very successful conference with many COSMIC-related papers on measurement automation, accounting for NFR, conversion of functional sizes, repeatability studies, etc and other important papers on estimating, benchmarking, industrial experience, etc
Other COSMIC-related papers from the IWSM, Nara, Japan are available for download from the ‘Research & Conference’ section of the Download page which can be found in the Portal area of this site.
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.
For more information contact your International Advisory Council member for your country.
We are very sad to announce that Grant Rule, a founder of COSMIC, was killed in a tragic sailing accident. Grant was truly talented with a tremendous knowledge of software. He was also such a nice gu...
A report, ‘The Performance of Real-Time, Business and Component Software Projects’ is now available from www.isbsg.org, for FREE to any organization submitting data to the ISBSG on five or more COSMIC...
