Documented Quality of COTS and OCM Components
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The reuse of components increases the need to document the components in a standard way, because proper documentation assists a buyer to assess the credibility and maturity of a component and validate the functional and quality properties of a component. This document provides a general template for documenting software components in a standard way whereby the component buyer and developer views are taken into account.
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