Paper Info
Title
Adapting the COSMIC Method for Evaluating the Functional Size in PRiM
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-85553-8_12
IWSM/Mensura
Keywords
Field
DocType
functional user requirements specification,non-functional property,cosmic method,business application,early stage,non-functional requirement,requirements specification,functional size,development process,account non-functional requirement,user requirements,real time,software systems,non functional requirement
Functional requirement,Data mining,Computer science,Requirements management,Requirement,Software requirements specification,System requirements specification,Functional specification,Non-functional requirement,Reliability engineering,Non-functional testing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4895
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gemma Grau118816.64