Combined Selection of COTS Components

Uncertainty explicit assessment of off-the-shelf software: A Bayesian approach

“…In other words, such bug scripts will provide empirical evidence for the server they were reported for but not for the other servers. We called these "dialect-specific" 12 We could have used the number of known bugs for each of the partition to construct a profile consistent with the observations. This is not acceptable for two reasons: i) it will favour poor bug reporting practices, and ii) we would have used the bugs twice -once in the inference procedure and another time for the profile, which is theoretically unsound.…”

“…An essential part of component-based software development is the assessment of available COTS components. Various assessment methods have been proposed [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14]. The results of these assessment techniques crucially depend on assuming that the values of the assessed attributes will be known with certainty at the end of the assessment.…”

Uncertainty Explicit Assessment of Off-the-Shelf Software: Selection of an Optimal Diverse Pair

“…Other assessment methods include: CISD (COTS-based Integrated System Development) [4], STACE (Socio Technical Approach to COTS Evaluation) [10], CDSEM (Checklist Driven Software Evaluation Methodology) [3], CRE-COTS-Based Requirements Engineering Method [6], CEP (Comparative Evaluation Process Activities) [7], CBA Process Decision Framework [8], A Proactive Evaluation Technique [19], CAP-COTS Acquisition Process method [5], Storyboard Process [11], Combined Selection of COTS Components [12], PECA Process [13] or COTS-DSS [14].…”

“…An initial and essential part of component based software development is the assessment of available COTS components. There exist a plethora of available methods for COTS assessment [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14]. An often overlooked aspect in the existing assessment techniques is the inherent uncertainty in the values of the parameters being assessed.…”

DesCOTS: a software system for selecting COTS components

“…To minimize this risk, several software engineering practices can be applied. In the last years, some methods have been proposed for dealing with COTS component selection [1,2,3,4]. In all of them, a key point is the comparison of the user requirements that drive the selection process with the capabilities of the evaluated COTS components.…”