The use of enterprise architecture frameworks has become more common in the past five
years within corporations as well as higher education. Only in the past two years has …

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

This paper presents a new COSMIC functional measurement automation tool
ScopeMaster®, which automatically generates a size estimation from textual requirements …

Turkcell, a leading telecommunications and technology company in Turkey, has decided to
initiate a project utilizing COSMIC to measure their software products and to use functional …

Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) is a point-to-multipoint content
delivery solution designed for LTE/LTE-A. It distributes efficiently the broadcast and multicast …

Software development organizations applying continuous process improvement, when
faced with the limits of qualitative approaches, are looking into quantitative approaches to …

In this paper we explore opportunities, challenges, and obstacles that Functional Size
Measurement (FSM) experts assume to be in automatically derived functional size, directly …

Among the various approaches to software size measurement, Functional Size
Measurement has been widely recognized for its usability in early phases of software …

Estimating functional size in early phases of software projects is essential for accurate effort
and cost planning. When an organization requires its business processes to be automated …

Measures and measurement practices are important elements in planning and managing
software projects. Yet software organizations struggle with determining the adequacy of their …