The productivity of a software activity may be defined generally as work-output/work-input, where work-input is the effort needed to produce the work-output. In this chapter, we describe the ISO standard COSMIC method, which was designed to measure a size of the work-output from a software process. Measured sizes must be useful for both productivity measurement and for effort estimation, for most types of software.
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