The demands in the software industry of estimating development effort in the early phases of
development are met by measuring software size from user requirements. A large number of …

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Model-driven engineering (MDE) is
the automatic production of software from simplified models of structure and functionality. It …

Nowadays, there are several MDD approaches that have defined Domain-Specific Modeling
Languages (DSML) that are oriented to representing their particular semantics. However …

Context There are two interrelated difficulties in requirements engineering processes. First,
free-format modelling practices in requirements engineering activities may lead to low …

Context. Many organizations are adopting the COSMIC method to size software products for
estimating and controlling their development costs and performances. Using a functional …

Many functional size measurement procedures have been developed for applying the
COSMIC measurement method to particular methods of software production. A subset of …

Automating functional size measurement (FSM) is important for organizations needing to
measure a large number of projects within a short timeframe, provided, of course, that the …

Context. Model-driven development approaches facilitate the production of Web
applications. Among them, the Object-Oriented Hypermedia method (OO-H) has been …

COSMIC ISO 19761 is considered a second generation of functional size measurement
methods. It has met its primary design goal to be of practical value in software project …

The accurate measurement of the functional size of applications that are automatically
generated in MDA environments is a challenge for the software development industry. This …