Third-Party Software´s Trust Quagmire

Author

Voas, Jeffrey ; Hurlburt, George

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Volume

48

Issue

12

fYear

2015

Firstpage

80

Lastpage

87

Abstract

Integrating software developed by third-party organizations into a larger system raises concerns about the software´s quality, origin, functionality, security, and interoperability. Addressing these concerns requires rethinking the roles of software´s principal supply-chain actors--vendor, assessor, and evaluator.

Keywords

open systems; outsourcing; software quality; trusted computing; Integrating software development; interoperability; software assessor; software evaluator; software functionality; software origin; software principal supply-chain actors; software quality; software security; software vendor; third-party organizations; third-party software trust quagmire; Computer security; Software development; Software engineering; Software measurement; Third party software developers; CBSE; COTS; commercial-off-the-shelf software; component-based software engineering; independent verification and validation; software composability; software engineering; software liability; software measurement; software reliability; third-party software;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2015.372

Filename

7368015