Investigating and improving a COTS-based software development process

Author

Morisio, M. ; Seaman, C.B. ; Parra, A.T. ; Basili, V.R. ; Kraft, S.E. ; Condon, S.E.

Author_Institution

Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

41

Abstract

The work described in the paper is an investigation of COTS based software development within a particular NASA environment, with an emphasis on the processes used. Fifteen projects using a COTS based approach were studied and their actual process was documented. This process is evaluated to identify essential differences in comparison to traditional software development. The main differences, and the activities for which projects require more guidance, are requirements definition and COTS selection, high level design, integration and testing. Starting from these empirical observations, a new process and guidelines for COTS based development are developed and briefly presented. The new process is currently under experimentation

Keywords

aerospace computing; computer aided software engineering; software development management; software packages; software tools; COTS based approach; COTS selection; COTS-based software development process; NASA environment; commercial off-the-shelf products; component based software; empirical observations; high level design; requirements definition; traditional software development; Educational institutions; NASA; Packaging; Permission; Programming; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software packages; Software tools; Standards development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Limerick

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

1-58113-206-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2000.870394

Filename

870394