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COSMIC FFP and the World-Wide Field Trials Strategy

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New Approaches in Software Measurement (IWSM 2000)

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Building on the strengths of previous work in the field of software functional size measurement, the Common Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC) proposed a set of principles in 1998 onto which a new generation of functional size measurement methods could be built. The COSMIC group then published version 2.0 of COSMIC-FFP, in 1999, as an example of a functional size measurement method built on those principles. Key concepts of its design and of the structure of its measurement process are presented, as well as the strategy of its world-wide field trials.

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  1. Software Engineering Management Research Laboratory, Université du Québec à Montréal, Succ. Centre-Ville Montréal, C.P. 8888, Québec, Canada

    Alain Abran & S. Oligny

  2. Software Measurement Service Ltd, St. Clare’s, Mill Hill Edenbridge, TN8 5DQ, Kent, UK

    Charles R. Symons

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  1. Institut für Verteilte Systeme, Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Reiner Dumke

  2. Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Québec, Montréal, Canada

    Alain Abran

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Abran, A., Oligny, S., Symons, C.R. (2001). COSMIC FFP and the World-Wide Field Trials Strategy. In: Dumke, R., Abran, A. (eds) New Approaches in Software Measurement. IWSM 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44704-0_10

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