scope:

This International Standard specifies the set of definitions, conventions and activities of the COSMIC-FFP Functional Size Measurement Method. It is applicable to software from the following functional domains: a) application software which is needed to support business administration; EXAMPLE Banking, insurance, accounting, personnel, purchasing, distribution or manufacturing. b) real-time software, the task of which is to keep up with or control events happening in the real world; EXAMPLE Software for telephone exchanges and message switching, software embedded in devices to control machines such as domestic appliances, lifts and car engines, for process control and automatic data acquisition, and within the operating system of computers. c) hybrids of the above.