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COTS products characterization

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Marco Torchiano,

Letizia Jaccheri,

Carl-Fredrik Sørensen,

Alf Inge WangAuthors Info & Claims

SEKE '02: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering

Pages 335 - 338

https://doi.org/10.1145/568760.568819

Published: 15 July 2002 Publication History

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A way to learn about Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products is to define a set of characteristics or attributes and then to collect information about these attributes. In an industrial context, the attributes used to select COTS clearly depend on project specific goals. In our educational context we made an attempt to define general COTS characterization attributes. The resulting framework provides a structure, which facilitate the learning process. Our proposed attributes have several similarities with the generic evaluation attributes defined by ISO 9126. A comparison with such a standard provides a deeper insight into the problem of characterizing COTS products.

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COTS products characterization
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
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859 pages

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DOI:10.1145/568760

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