COSMIC Function Points

Methodologies of the COSMIC Application in Practice  ◾  185

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can recognize that what we called importance is just as extensive a property as many

others, as software functional size is expected to be, too.

When estimating the software functional size (number of Cfsu), the only

criterion is the size itself. Consequently, we can consider a simple AHP hierarchy,

with only one level (and the objective estimated size above it); the nodes of this

level are the n items listed by the estimator, eventually prior to the functional

decomposition (this list could even include everything from possible functional

processes to macro-processes).

In order to review the possible ways to merge E&QCFFP and AHP, let’s ...