The COSMIC Functional Size Measurement Method

A Ac ck kn no ow wl le ed dg ge em me en nt ts s This COSMIC Guideline is derived from a paper originally presented at the SMEF Conference in May 2006 in Rome, Italy by Harold van Heeringen of Sogeti Netherlands [1]. The paper was entitled 'Measuring the functional size of a data warehouse application using the COSMIC-FFP method. That paper was written in response to a paper by Luca Santillo [2] who suggested that the COSMIC method would provide a better way of measuring a functional size of data warehouse software than earlier '1 st Generation' Functional Size Measurement methods. (COSMIC). Permission to copy all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for commercial advantage and that the title of the publication, its version number, and its date are cited and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Common Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC). To copy otherwise requires specific permission. Public domain versions of the COSMIC documentation, including translations into other languages can be found on the Web at V Ve er rs si io on n C Co on nt tr ro ol l The following table summarizes the changes to this 'Data Warehouse Guideline'.