A case study in applying a systematic method for COTS selection
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
Investigating and improving a COTS-based software development
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
COTS products characterization
SEKE '02 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering
What Do You Mean by COTS? Finally, a Useful Answer
IEEE Software
Developing New Processes for COTS-Based Systems
IEEE Software
ECSQ '02 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Quality
Definition and Classification of COTS: A Proposal
ICCBSS '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems
METRICS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Uncertainty explicit assessment of off-the-shelf software: A Bayesian approach
Information and Software Technology
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Among the main activities involved in COTS-based development there are identification, evaluation, and selection of COTS products. Several techniques have been developed for these activities; all of them are based on measurement of attributes. The effort devoted to these activities is more valuable if the attributes can be reused. Since the evaluation of COTS is a very project-specific activity, the definition of reusable attributes is difficult. Several studies show that it is possible and convenient to develop a reusable attribute framework. We propose a set of simple and generic criteria can be used to validate the set of attributes and improve them.