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This paper presents a case study on the implementation of IFPUG FPA and COSMIC software measurement methods for a small real-time system. The two methods were applied separately to measure the functional size of the same software. The main objective of this paper is to explore, through a case study, the issue of the measurement adequacy of each measurement method to capture the functional size of real-time software. For the practitioners, the real issue is that such a ‘number’ represent adequately the functional size. This number should take into consideration the particularities of specific real-time software and be sensitive to small variations of functionality.
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Desharnais, JM., Abran, A., Dikici, P.E., İliş, M.C., Karaca, İ.N. (2009). Functional Size of a Real-Time System. 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_9
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