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Chapter 3
Methodologies of the
COSMIC Application
in Practice
e COSMIC FFP functional sizing method can be applied to several software
domains (such as business applications and real-time software). e measurement
manual oers a theoretical skeleton, together with examples from those domains.
For each specic software domain, a guideline will be developed. Otherwise,
software processes can be meant as the development of new products, mainte-
nance of existing solutions and application, or adaptation of acquired systems.
For all these kinds of software, production appropriate versions of ...