COSMIC - FFP – Some results from the field trials
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Data has been collected in a number of organizations since then and the analysis of the first results started in July 2000. This paper summarizes the context of the COSMIC-FFP field trials and presents some of the key observations obtained to date. Parts of the analysis focused on the relationship between software size and project variables like effort and schedule while other parts of the analysis focused on the relationship between the components contributing to the functional size of the software. Notably the relevance of considering the count of data attributes as a contributor to functional size and the distribution and variation of the size displayed by the functional processes of real-time software was investigated.
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