
Measurement and Theoretical Basics of the COSMIC-ISO 19761 ◾ 127
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Two additional examples are presented as an illustration of information that
the measurer can obtain from the documentation or by interviewing a software
developer about the software to be measured:
e rst example
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describes a request from a user:
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A similar example was used in St.-Pierre et al. (1996).
The user wishes to consult a provider’s database to obtain a list of the arti-
cles purchased during the past month from a specific provider.
The measurement of the functional size of this process involves (based
on the data available) a knowledge ...