DesCOTS: a software system for selecting COTS components

Grau, G.; Carvallo, Juan Pablo; Franch, Xavier; Quer, Carme

doi:10.1109/eurmic.2004.1333363

Cited by 45 publications

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“…In such approach, a hierarchical evaluation criteria analyzes the characteristics of the components based on other factors such as organizational infrastructure or the availability of libraries. In [9], DesCOTS system proposes a methodology based on a quality model which divides the characteristics of the components for their evaluation.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Semantic Matching of Components at Run-Time in Distributed Environments

Criado

Iribarne

Padilla

et al. 2015

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2015 Workshops

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Abstract. Software factories are a key element in Component-Based Software Engineering due to the common space provided for software reuse through repositories of components. These repositories can be developed by third parties in order to be inspected and used by different organizations, and they can also be distributed in different locations. Therefore, there is a need for a trading service that manages all available components. In this paper, we describe a matching process based on syntactic and semantic information of software components. This matching operation is part of a trading service which is in charge of generating configurations of components from architectural definitions. With this aim, the proposed matching allows us to evaluate and score the possible configurations, thus guiding a search process to build the architectural solution which best fulfills an input definition.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Semantic Matching of Components at Run-Time in Distributed Environments

Criado

Iribarne

Padilla

et al. 2015

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2015 Workshops

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“…This has been extended to support all the informational dimensions for selecting OTS and reusing the information about them [14]. In addition, some research tools have been developed for supporting the method, i.e., the DesCOTS system (Description, evaluation, and selection of COTS components) [21].…”

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“…Having structured OTS information enables systematic support for evaluating and choosing components. We are integrating the DesCOTS system into the OTS-Wiki [21], as stated in Fig.1. It includes a set of tools that interoperate to support the whole OTS selection process: the Quality Model Tool allows defining quality models; the OTS Evaluation Tool allows evaluating components; the OTS Selection Tool allows defining requirements that drive the OTS component selection; and the Taxonomy Tool allows organizing OTS domains as a taxonomy supporting reuse of quality models.…”

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Open Source Collaboration for Fostering Off-The-Shelf Components Selection

Ayala

Søensen

Conradi

et al. 2007

Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation

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Abstract. The use of Off-The-Shelf software components in ComponentBased Development implies many challenges. One of them is the lack of available and well-suited data to support selection of suitable OTS components. This paper proposes a feasible and incremental way to federate and reuse the different efforts for finding, selecting, and maintaining OTS components in a structured way. This is done not only for supporting OTS components selection, but also to overcome reported problems with the integration and maintenance of component repositories. It is based on the "open source collaboration" idea to incrementally build an OTS components reuse infrastructure, enabling automatic support for OTS selection processes.

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“…For doing so, we can proceed manually, or use tool support ranging from a simple spreadsheet to a more sophisticated tool, e.g. our DesCOTS system [36].…”

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Domain Analysis for Supporting Commercial Off-the-Shelf Components Selection

Ayala

Franch

2006

Conceptual Modeling - ER 2006

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Abstract. Though new technological trends and paradigms arise for developing complex software systems, systematic reuse continues to be an elusive goal. In this context, the adoption of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technologies introduces many challenges that still have not been fully overcome, such as the lack of comprehensive mechanisms to record and manage the required information for supporting COTS components selection. In this paper we present a domain analysis approach for gathering the information needed to describe COTS market segments as required for effective COTS components selection. Due to the diversity of the information to capture, we propose different dimensions of interest for COTS components selection that are covered by different domain models. These models are articulated by means of a single framework based on a widespread software quality standard.

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DesCOTS: a software system for selecting COTS components

Abstract: Selection of commercial-off-the-shelf software components (COTS components)

Cited by 45 publications

References 16 publications

Semantic Matching of Components at Run-Time in Distributed Environments

Semantic Matching of Components at Run-Time in Distributed Environments

Open Source Collaboration for Fostering Off-The-Shelf Components Selection

Domain Analysis for Supporting Commercial Off-the-Shelf Components Selection

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