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An empirical evaluation of the Common Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC) method has been conducted in this study, by measuring the functional size of 17 mobile Personal Health Records (mPHRs) for pregnancy monitoring. The aim of this evaluation is to compare the functional size of each app measured using the COSMIC method to the score of the app obtained in a previous evaluation that relied on functions extraction using a quality assessment questionnaire. The shift between the rankings of both evaluations was small for the majority of the selected apps. Therefore the findings of this study support the use of the COSMIC method for these apps in regards to measuring the functional size for further updates or improvements. Moreover, the use of COSMIC is more effective since it covers the full features and functionalities of mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring.
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This work was conducted within the research project PEER, 7-246 supported by the US Agency for International Development. The authors would like to thank the NAS and USAID for their support.
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Bachiri, M., Idri, A., Redman, L., Abran, A., de Gea, J.M.C., Fernández-Alemán, J.L. (2019). COSMIC Functional Size Measurement of Mobile Personal Health Records for Pregnancy Monitoring. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'19 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 932. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_3
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