SoftwareExpert

Features SoftwareExpert

SoftwareExpert helps to accurately measure the software scope.
Thisapp serves mainly for the application of the COSMIC Function Pointmethod ( as International Standard ISO/IEC 19761) in a simplified form(as LeanCOSMIC) and can be used via the button "Software Sizing".
Upto 20 so-called functional processes and up to 15 associated data groups(as identification of the COSMIC metrics (data movement)) can bedefined/acquired.
The determination of the COSMIC Function Points(CFP) with the four sub metrics Entries, Exits, Reads and Writes thentakes place via the COSMIC Sizing Button whereby each functionalprocess receives its CFP and the total CFP (Total CFP) is thendisplayed.
This app also enables the application of a shortenedCOSMIC method as Early & Quick Method and the local extensionapproach of the process CFPs (e.g.
by considering the "inner" functionalscope) as Extend Method.The special benefit of this app is the possibility (in the Estimate button) touse the estimation formulas and relations known from the internationalexperience for the effort, the productivity, the project duration and muchmore due to a circumference measurement (mainly as CFP).
Some ofthese estimates are displayed under the Project Dashboard button as ageneral overview.
If other circumference measurements are given (e.g.as LOC, IFPUG Function Points, Story Points etc.) a conversion can bedone under Convert before and the estimation formulas can be used onthis basis.The informative part of this app is supplemented by an overview of someof the very classic experiences of software engineering (as Softwareexperiences).The measurement data can be provided with an identification and storedwithin the app (and reloaded later).
Some examples (mostly from theCOSMIC community) are already available for the app user.
For helpfulinformation the app pages contain links to the COSMIC community, toSML@b, to our metrics bibliography on our GI website as well as to therisks of Peter Neumann and a SWEBOK classification for softwareengineering in general.This App is useful for short and fast project controlling in the agiledevelopment and as educational support for computer science studentsand professionals based on the current knowledge in empirical softwareengineering.