Modernsoftwaresystemsincreasinglyusecommercial-o?-the-shelf(COTS)so- ware products as building blocks. In some cases, major software systems are assembled with virtually no custom code in the system. The use of COTS software products as components o?ers the promise of rapid delivery to end users, shared development costs with other customers, and an opportunity for expanding mission or business capabilities and performance as improvements are made in the commercial marketplace. Few organizations today can a?ord the resources and time to replicate market-tested capabilities. Yet, the promise of COTS products is too often not realized in practice. There have been more failures than successes in using COTS software products. The research and software practitioner communities have been working with COTS-based software systems for a number of years. There is now su?cient documented experience in the community to collect, analyze, and disseminate success stories, common failings, lessons-learned, and research advances. The mounting experience shows that the e?ective use of COTS software products in major software systems demands new skills, knowledge, and abilities, changed roles and responsibilities, and di?erent techniques and processes. The International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS) focuses on the challenges of building and maintaining systems that incorporate COTSsoftwareproducts.Theconferencesponsors,theNationalResearchCo- cil Canada, the Software Engineering Institute, and the University of Southern California Center for Software Engineering, aim to bring together managers, - velopers, maintainers, and researchers to share their expertise and experience.
Author(s): Chris Abts (auth.), John Dean, Andrée Gravel (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2255
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 260
Tags: Management of Computing and Information Systems; Software Engineering; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing
COTS-Based Systems (CBS) Functional Density—A Heuristic for Better CBS Design....Pages 1-9
Meeting the Challenges of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Products: The Information Technology Solutions Evolution Process (ITSEP)....Pages 10-20
Lessons Learned Integrating COTS into Systems....Pages 21-30
Risk Reduction in COTS Software Selection with BASIS....Pages 31-43
European COTS User Working Group: Analysis of the Common Problems and Current Practices of the European COTS Users....Pages 44-53
Combined Selection of COTS Components....Pages 54-64
Identifying Evolvability for Integration....Pages 65-75
Issues in Developing Security Wrapper Technology for COTS Software Products....Pages 76-85
A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation....Pages 86-96
Five Hurdles to the Successful Adoption of Component-Based COTS in a Corporate Setting....Pages 97-107
On Building Testable Software Components....Pages 108-121
Streamlining the Acquisition Process for Large-Scale COTS Middleware Components....Pages 122-131
Storyboard Process to Assist in Requirements Verification and Adaptation to Capabilities Inherent in COTS....Pages 132-141
Realizing the Potential for COTS Utilization: A Work in Progress....Pages 142-150
Rethinking Process Guidance for Selecting Software Components....Pages 151-164
Definition and Classification of COTS: A Proposal....Pages 165-175
The Limitations of Current Decision-Making Techniques in the Procurement of COTS Software Components....Pages 176-187
COTS-Based System Engineering: The Linguistics Approach....Pages 188-198
Merging Integration Solutions for Architecture and Security Mismatch....Pages 199-208
The Integration of COTS/GOTS within NASA’s HST Command and Control System....Pages 209-221
Replaceable Components and the Service Provider Interface....Pages 222-233
The Standard Autonomous File Server, a Customized, Off-The-Shelf Success Story....Pages 234-244
Implementing Large-Scale COTS Reengineering within the United States Department of Defense....Pages 245-255
