Title :
DesCOTS-SL: A Tool for the Selection of COTS Components
Author :
Quer, Carme ; Franch, Xavier ; Lopez-Pelegrín, Xavier
Author_Institution :
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
Abstract :
DesCOTS is a system that has an aim to help clients in the selection of COTS components. This system is based in the use of quality models associated to a software domain for evaluating the products in that domain, and for defining in a formal way the requirements of the clients for finding a suitable product in that domain. The evaluation and the formal definition of requirements are facilitated by metrics of each quality entity in the quality models. Our ISO/IEC 9126-1 based quality models are a set of quality entities structured in hierarchies of characteristics, subcharacteristics and attributes; with possible intermediate hierarchies of sub-characteristics and attributes
Keywords :
IEC standards; ISO standards; software metrics; software packages; software quality; software selection; COTS components; DesCOTS-SL; ISO/IEC 9126-1 standard; commercial off the shelf software; quality models;
Conference_Titel :
Requirements Engineering, 14th IEEE International Conference
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2555-6
