A Refined Functional Size Measurement Procedure for Real-Time Embedded Software Requirements Expressed Using the Simulink Model

Author

Soubra, Hassan ; Abran, A. ; Ramdane-Cherif, Amar

Author_Institution

Embedded Syst. Team, ESTACA Eng. Sch., Laval, France

fYear

2012

fDate

17-19 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

70

Lastpage

77

Abstract

COSMIC-based functional size measurement (FSM) procedures should all produce the same measurement results, no matter what design decisions are made when modeling the functional requirements of the software to be measured. When the FSM procedure proposed in [14] is applied to different models of the same functional requirements, the measurement results vary. This problem is addressed, and a refined FSM procedure for real-time embedded software is proposed. The revised rules of this refined FSM procedure are based on an analysis of the issues detected in [14], and a solution to the variance issue is offered as a result.

Keywords

embedded systems; software engineering; COSMIC-based functional size measurement; FSM procedure; Simulink model; real-time embedded software; real-time embedded software requirements; refined functional size measurement procedure; Equations; Mathematical model; Real-time systems; Size measurement; Software measurement; Software packages; COSMIC ISO 19761; Functional size measurement; Simulink; measurement procedures; measurement variance; real-time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Measurement and the 2012 Seventh International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (IWSM-MENSURA), 2012 Joint Conference of the 22nd International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Assisi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3127-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4840-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWSM-MENSURA.2012.18

Filename

6472568