Title :
Software component quality assessment in practice: successes and practical impediments
Author :
Gorton, Ian ; Liu, Anna
Author_Institution :
Pacific Northwest Nat. Lab., Richland, WA, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes the authors´ experiences of initiating and sustaining a project at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization), aimed at accelerating the successful adoption of COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) middleware technologies in large business and scientific information systems. The project´s aims are described, along with example outcomes and an assessment of what is needed for wide-scale software component quality assessments to succeed.
Keywords :
business data processing; client-server systems; distributed databases; management information systems; scientific information systems; software packages; software quality; subroutines; COTS middleware technology adoption acceleration; CSIRO project; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization; business information systems; commercial off-the-shelf technologies; large-scale systems; project outcomes; scientific information systems; software component quality assessment; Application software; Business; Computer industry; Enterprise resource planning; Impedance; Information systems; Large-scale systems; Middleware; Quality assessment; Software quality;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, 2002. ICSE 2002. Proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-472-X
