
Measurement and Theoretical Basics of the COSMIC-ISO 19761 ◾ 157
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measurement results to international standards as codied in a system of software
measurement references.
2.5 COSMIC FFP and Functional Complexity
(FC) Measures: A Study of Their
Scales, Units, and Scale Types
Manar Abu Talib, Alain Abran, and Olga Ormandjieva
2.5.1 Introduction
e COSMIC FFP (Abran and Symons 2005) functional size measurement method
was developed by the Common Software Measurement International Consortium
(COSMIC), and it has been adopted as an international ISO standard: ISO 1976
(ISO 2003d). COSMIC FFP measures the soft