Using OTS (Off-The-Shelf) components in software projects has become increasing popular in the IT industry. After project managers opt for OTS components, they can decide to use COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) components or OSS (Open Source Software) components instead of building these themselves. This paper describes an empirical study on why project decisionmakers use COTS components instead...

This short paper presents a new research agenda to address problems of COTS software selection in the forthcoming decade. It describes the increasing shift towards software engineering based on COTS software packages, the limitations of current COTS/component-based software engineering methods and research efforts, and proposes a new research agenda to address the problems which arise from a so...

The difficulties to assess reliability of systems that use COTS components are sometimes compounded by the inaccessibility of some COTS codes. This paper develops an approach of Perturbation of Interface Parameters (PIP) to simulate failures of COTS components. It is to validate the use of PIP as a fault-injection technique to test COTS components and surrounding systems. Tests of a nuclear pro...

There is growing interest in the notion of software development through the planned integration of COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) products. The potential advantages of this integrationcentric approach are shorter development time and reduced cost. Often a COTS based development process consists of an evaluation, selection, adaptation, integration, and evolution of components obtained from exte...

Compared with traditional information system development methodology, COTS-based information system has the following advantages: Avoid expensive development and maintenance; frequent upgrades often anticipate organization’s need; rich functionality; mature technologies; tracks technology trends, etc. However, how to select appropriate COTS components is a complex problem. For improving the acc...

Los métodos ágiles de construcción de software como eXtreme Programming y Scrum conciben el proceso de construcción como un ejercicio de desarrollo de software a medida. Sin embargo en la actualidad, muchos sistemas software están compuestos parcial o incluso totalmente por componentes COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf), debidamente personalizados e integrados. En este tipo de sistemas, el énfasis...

135 Management F or most software applications, the use of commercial off-the-shelf products has become an economic necessity. Gone are the days when upsized industry and government information technology organizations had the luxury of trying to develop—and, at greater expense, maintain—their own database, network, and user-interface management infrastructure. Viable COTS products are climbing...

This article presents a cooperative dynamic task assignment framework for certain class of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) employed to control the outbreak Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The problem monitoring and controlling COTS is transcribed into constrained which eradicating clusters COTS, by injection system COTSbot AUVs, considered as task. A pro...

In spite of the increasing use of COTS products for system development, there is little consideration on how to acquire requirements for COTS products, how to select COTS components and how to assemble them to comply to these requirements. The paper addresses the issue of the requirements engineering process for COTS components acquisition and assembly. It proposes an approach based on the noti...

This workshop explores innovative ways of integrating COTS software into software systems for purposes often unimagined by their original designers. It emphasizes tools and techniques for plugging COTS into software systems safely and predictably. The past has predominantly explored how to deal with COTS integration during requirements engineering, risk assessment, and selection. This workshop ...