Understanding the Impact of Change in COTS-Based Systems
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The use of commercial off-the-shelf software components (COTS) promises significant advances in terms of greater productivity, reduced time to market and reliability. However, the blackbox nature of these components poses equally significant challenges for managing maintenance, future change to component-based systems and in particular the impact of proposed changes. Unless these challenges are adequately addressed, the use of COTS components may result in the deployment of systems that are almost impossible to maintain safely. We propose a combined approach for helping developers to understand the impact of change which relies on a COTS component-oriented development process and the use of architecture description language (ADL) for documenting component system architectures.
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