COTS Component Evaluation and the Internet
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Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software component is developed by a commercial vendor and is sold “as is”. There is no single, accepted definition for a COTS software component. Here, we assume the COTS software component of coarse granularity (often referred to as ‘software package’) which is self-contained, independent, and with a “significant aggregate functionality and complexity” (Brown 1996). Traditional COTS software components of this type are operating systems, database servers, and network monitors.
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