Effectiveness of integration versus characterization of COTS products: an empirical study
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This chapter faces the problem of identifying a set of parameters characterizing COTS products. The need for such a characterization derives from the problem to identify and select among many available products the ones which are appropriate for a specific software system. The characterization should allow to foresee the integration and maintenance effort in target systems developed with a COTS-based approach. In our study we identified a set of COTS product parameters and executed an empirical study for evaluating if there exists any statistically significant correlation among them and the effectiveness of development and maintenance process of two industrial software projects. The obtained results show that COTS products characterization can be used to foresee integration and maintenance effort of the target system. The analysis also shows the need to continue the on-field experimentation, in order to make the learned lessons effective and applicable.
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