COTS Evaluation Supported by Knowledge Bases

Evaluating and selecting software packages: A review

“…Columns 6 indicate whether the proposed selection methodology, evaluation technique, selection criteria have been applied practically. Only 6 papers [4,17,20,23,39,70] describes a system/tool for software selection, hence reference of these papers and column representing a system/tool is not included Table 2. The contribution of the reviewed literature in each category is represented graphically in Fig.…”

“…concentrate on evaluation and selection of specific software products such as CASE tools [6,38,53], simulation software [10,19,[44][45][46]66], DSS software [7,55], AHP software [49], knowledge management tools [47,50], data mining software [11], visual programming languages [26], ERP packages [21], CRM packages [12], expert system shells [64], and operations management software [61] describe automated systems/tools that assist decision makers in various activities involved in software evaluation and selection [4,17,20,23,39,70] describe only criteria for software selection [3,9,54,55,64], and methodology for software selection [2,6,19] relate to the evaluation of a single software attribute, quality or some quality sub-attribute, for a software product [15,16].…”

An Evaluation on Various Software Component based Selection Techniques

“…WSM [5] uses step by step method for selecting the best modules.  Decide norms for selecting the best modules.…”

“…Surveying and selection of the module consists of concurrent examination of different elements to rank the accessible modules and selecting the required one. This is MCDM [5] technique in which different decision have to be made over different criteria. The goal of CBSE is to save the cost and time of development of a large system, outcome should be efficient and reliable , no errors etc.…”

Ranking and selection of commercial off-the-shelf using fuzzy distance based approach

“…Ducik and Boegh (2003) present a framework that helps the software developer in the quality evaluation process of the COTS software product. Mohamed et al (2004) provide a conceptual model for the component selection and evaluation that was implemented by using the agent technologies incorporated by toe knowledge bases as COTS KB and methods KB. Mancebo and Andrews (2005) present a component selection and evaluation approach based on the existing techniques by considering the archietecture of the components as a major aspect.…”