A COSMIC measurement procedure for sizing web applications developed using the OO-H method

In the last years some model-driven development approaches have been proposed to automatically generate Web applications starting from conceptual models. Among them, the Object-Oriented Hypermedia method (OO-H) has been successfully used in the development of industrial Web applications. This method is based on two conceptual models, the UML class diagram to represent content and behavioral requirements, and the Navigation Access diagram to represent navigational requirements. The need of functional sizing this kind of Web applications motivated us to define a COSMIC measurement procedure to be applied on the OO-H conceptual models. In this paper, we present the mapping rules that have been conceived together with an example of their application.

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