:COTS Program

Considering COTS

In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has placed increasing emphasis on the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) items. Some have seen the use of COTS as the silver bullet that will allow the Services to deploy more capable systems faster and at lower cost. Others have viewed the use of COTS items more skeptically. Many in this latter group believe that COTS cannot work effectively...

Maintaining a Cots-based Systems* Maintening a Cots-based Systems

Permission is granted to quote short excerpts and to reproduce figures and tables from this report, provided that the source of such material is fully acknowledged. Summary: After depoyment, all software systems require an extensive and expensive phase of maintenance and management regardless of whether they are COTS-based or custom built. Understanding how COTS-based systems are maintained, an...

Dynamic Model for COTS Glue Code Development and COTS Integration

One of the most significant changes in the software development area is the trend of building systems incorporating pre-existing software, with special emphasis upon the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software components. COTS describes software commercially available as stand-alone products and which offer specific functionality needed by a larger system into which they might be incorp...

COTS Characterization Model in a COTS-Based Development Environment

Classifying COTS Products

Classes of COTS products can be derived by classification attributes, which define a Cartesian space. Examples of such attributes are the architectural level, the kind of the COTS product (is it a standard, or a service, or an executable component?), and the software life cycle phase in which the product is used (is it a development tool or an executable component?). COTS products belonging to ...