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The COSMIC method is a standard that has been proven effective for measuring the functional size of business applications and real-time software systems from their functional user requirements specification. Despite of this, the approaches based on the COSMIC method usually require a mapping between the concepts in the requirements specification and their own terms and do not take into account non-functional requirements. On the other hand, PRiM is a method that aims at assessing non-functional properties at the early stages of the development process. PRiM uses the i* framework to model the functional and non-functional requirements in terms of actors and dependencies among them. In this paper we present how the i* constructs proposed in PRiM can be adapted to measure the functional size using the COSMIC method and, as PRiM works with requirements and allows the evaluation of non-functional properties, there is a remarkable benefit when using both methods altogether.
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Grau, G. (2008). Adapting the COSMIC Method for Evaluating the Functional Size in PRiM. In: Cuadrado-Gallego, J.J., Braungarten, R., Dumke, R.R., Abran, A. (eds) Software Process and Product Measurement. Mensura IWSM 2007 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4895. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85553-8_12
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