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A Case Study in COSMIC Functional Size Measurement: The Rice Cooker Revisited

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Software Process and Product Measurement (IWSM 2009)

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UML models have been successfully used to support COSMIC-based functional size measurement. UML-based measurement is of great interest for industry, because of the popularity of the language. However, industry needs well defined, easy to learn and apply methods. It is therefore necessary to provide measurement procedures that are well defined, that require relatively little effort and that are coherent with the COSMIC measurement rules, in order to ease their adoption in enterprise environments. This paper contributes to such goal: we show how to build UML models that are easy to measure according to the COSMIC rules; we provide a case study based on the well-known example of the rice cooker; we show how the usage of UML can actually improve the practice of COSMIC measurement, by making the COSMIC measurement rules applicable in a UML context.

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  1. Computer Science and Communication Department, University of Insubria, Via Mazzini, 5, 21100, Varese, Italy

    Luigi Lavazza

  2. CEFRIEL, Via Fucini, 2, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Luigi Lavazza

  3. Systems Research Group, CASL, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Vieri Del Bianco

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  1. École de technologie supérieure, Département de génie logiciel et des TI, Université du Québec, 1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest, H3C 1K3, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Alain Abran

  2. Quality Management and Methods, Processes DCC/QMP, Bosch Rexroth Electric Drives and Controls GmbH, Bürgermeister-Dr.-Nebel Str. 2, 97816, Lohr am Main, Germany

    René Braungarten

  3. Fakultät für Informatik, Institut für Verteilte Systeme, AG Softwaretechnik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

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    Jacob Brunekreef

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Lavazza, L., Del Bianco, V. (2009). A Case Study in COSMIC Functional Size Measurement: The Rice Cooker Revisited. In: Abran, A., Braungarten, R., Dumke, R.R., Cuadrado-Gallego, J.J., Brunekreef, J. (eds) Software Process and Product Measurement. IWSM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5891. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05415-0_8

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