A field study of the software design process for large systems
Communications of the ACM
Educating computer scientists: linking the social and the technical
Communications of the ACM
A case study in applying a systematic method for COTS selection
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
Essentials of Management Information Systems
Essentials of Management Information Systems
Software Engineering
Computer
A Framework for Evaluating Software Technology
IEEE Software
Acquiring COTS Software Selection Requirements
IEEE Software
Maintaining Component-Based Systems
IEEE Software
An architectural approach to building systems from COTS software components
CASCON '97 Proceedings of the 1997 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
The Influence of Organisational Factors on the Success and Quality of a Product-line Architecture
ASWEC '98 Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference
Understanding Resistance to Software Reuse
STEP '97 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP '97) (including CASE '97)
Engineering of component-based systems
ICECCS '96 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
Facilitating Component-Based Software Engineering: COTS and Open Systems
SAST '97 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Assessment of Software Tools (SAST '97)
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Most developing countries (DCs) have yet to fully benefit from the many advances in the information technology (IT) field because of specific problems experienced by these countries. Examples include a lack of systems infrastructure and resources to invest in IT. Component-Based Development (CBD) offers a number of benefits that the DCs can tap into, such as reducing development and maintenance costs and improving reuse across projects. CBD entail purchasing a number of off-the-shelf software components, each satisfying some part of the requirements of the system and integrating these components into the required system. This paper will discuss the findings of a survey conducted in a specific developing country (Zambia) to assess important factors that support the CBD process. The results suggests that, although CBD has great potential for DCs there are some social and technical factors that need to be addressed by organisations in DCs for this to be fully realised. For example, the results show that from the social point of view there is lack of management support for CBD and from the technical point of view that organisations were not familiar with the technology for integrating components.