Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Software Development Framework

Author

Suleiman, Basem

Author_Institution

Univ. of New South Wales, Kensington

fYear

2008

fDate

26-28 March 2008

Firstpage

690

Lastpage

695

Abstract

Budget and schedule savings are the driving factors for the adoption of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software components by software development organizations. The reliance on COTS components has lead to component-based development (CBD) software systems and introduced changes to the software development process and hence software project management responsibilities and roles. This paper introduces a general framework discussion of essential management aspects for CBD, focusing on COTS. Particularly, stakeholders, requirements, component selection and architecture management issues are discussed from different angles. Some CBD management guidelines and best practices for these aspects are outlined in the conclusion. In addition, CBD management challenges are drawn along with some suggestions in the conclusion section.

Keywords

software engineering; software packages; COTS software; commercial-off-the-shelf software; component-based development software systems; software development organizations; software project management; Application software; Australia; Best practices; Computer architecture; Guidelines; Open source software; Programming; Project management; Risk management; Software development management; Comercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS); Component Software Development (CBS); Project Management; Software Components;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2008. ASWEC 2008. 19th Australian Conference on

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

ISSN

1530-0803

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3100-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASWEC.2008.4483264

Filename

4483264