Abstract

The growing reliance on Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components for developing large-scale projects introduces a new paradigm in software Engineering; which requires the design of new software development and business processes. Large scale component reuse leads to savings in development resources, enabling these resources to be applied to areas such as quality improvement. These savings come at the price of integration difficulties, performance constraints, and incompatibility of components from multiple vendors. Relying on COTS components also increases the system's vulnerability to risks arising from third-party development, which can negatively affect the quality of the system, as well as causing expenses not incurred in traditional software development. We aim to alleviate such concerns by using a framework based on software metrics to accurately quantify factors contributing to the overall quality of a COTS-Based System (CBS) and guide decisions regarding quality and risk management.

Meeting Name

7th IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering (2002: Oct. 23-25, Tokyo, Japan)

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Second Department

Computer Science

Keywords and Phrases

COTS-Based Software Systems; Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Components; Component Reuse; Decision Making; Metrics-Based Framework; Performance Constraints; Risk Management; Software Engineering; Software Metrics; Software Reusability; Application Software; Business; Large-Scale Systems; Programming; Software Quality; Software Systems; Testing

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

769517692

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1530-2059

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Final Version

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2002 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Oct 2002

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