An Automated Software Size Measurement Tool based on Generation Model using COSMIC Function Size Measurement

Abstract

At present, most of the software industries need the well-defined models and standard measurement methods to measure the size of software. They are useful in the estimation of effort and time that are extensively used at the early stage of software development. COSMIC Functional Size Measurement (FSM) is one of the recognized methods to estimate the size of software project. The several research initiatives have focused on COSMIC FSM procedure with specific design diagram notation by manually and automatically. However, manual measurement of the various diagrams is time-wasting and difficult to measure the accurate size of the software. Therefore, the automated measurement of function size which includes the generation model based on three different diagram notations such as UML, SysML and Petri net and general mapping rules between COSMIC FSM and generation model to measure the size of software is proposed in this paper. The manual measurement of cooker system by using the generation model and COSMIC concept is successfully done in our previous paper. This proposed automated tool can handle various types of diagramming and get the size of software correctly.