Economic imperatives are changing the nature of software development processes to reflect
both the opportunities and challenges of using COTS products. Processes are increasingly …

Although commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products are becoming increasingly popular, little
information is available on how they affect existing software development processes or what …

Building and evolving software systems is an arduous, costly, lengthy, and complex task.
The resulting systems are similarly complex. We're thus constantly searching for ways to …

As the use of commercial technology and products in systems becomes increasingly
popular, particularly for government organizations, program managers need a new …

In the early days of business computing, most software was written from scratch. Companies
created applications to automate key business processes such as American Airlines' …

Empirical data has revealed that COTS based application (CBA) development lifecycles are
unique and differ from traditional software development processes. Each project will vary …

Abstract COTS-Based Systems (CBS) development is a process of building systems from
pre-fabricated Commercial-Off-The Shelf (COTS) software components. CBS success …

Although developing with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components is gaining more
attention from both research and industrial communities, most literature on the topic doesn't …

Data collected from five years of developing e-service applications at USC-CSE reveals that
an increasing fraction have been commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)-Based Application (CBA) …

COTS products are now ubiquitous and clearly have become a key factor in modern
software systems development. If COTS are chosen poorly, a project will likely fail. As a …