More and more companies tend to use secure products as COTS to develop their secure systems due to resource limitations. The security concerns add more complexity as well as potential risks to COTS selection process, and it is always a great challenge for developers to make the selection decisions. In this paper, we provide a method for security risk analysis in COTS based development (CBD) bas...

The work described in this 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,...

The use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components presents a great promise, as well as challenges and risks. In this paper, we describe our ongoing research on developing adaptable software architectures using COTS components. In particular, we describe an Adaptable COTS-Aware Software Architecting (ACASA) framework that addresses the concerns of the various stakeholders of the proposed sys...

COTS-Based Systems (CBS) development focuses on building large software systems by integrating previously existing software components. CBS success depends on successful evaluation and selection of Commercial-Off-TheShelf (COTS) software components to fit customer requirements. Literature shows that successful selection of offthe-shelf systems to fit customer requirements remains problematic. T...

As the use of commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) components becomes ever more prevalent in the creation of large software systems, the need for the ability to reasonably predict the true lifetime cost of using such software components grows accordingly. In using COTS components, immediate short-term gains in direct development effort & schedule are possible, but usually as a trade-off for a more co...

On the outset, components or COTS-based systems offers several advantages, including the promise of shorting the development life cycle, reducing costs of software development and faster utilisation of recent technical improvements in software industry in terms of capability, reliability, compatibility, performance and so forth. Many (initially!) believed that developing COTS-based systems woul...

Nearly a decade ago, DNA barcoding (partial mitochondrial COI gene sequences) showed that there are at least four species in the Indo-Pacific within what was previously conceived to be a single Crown-of-Thorns-Seastar (COTS) species, Acanthaster planci. Two of these species—A. planci Linnaeus, 1758, distributed in the North Indian Ocean, and A. mauritiensis de Loriol, 1885, distributed in the S...

Reusable commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products are routinely employed in development of software systems. However, no systematic techniques are available for specification or verification of critical aspects of such systems. This paper explains that the dependencies between a critical subsystem and a COTS product can be isolated through formally-stated mathematical and programmatic interface...

Though new technological trends and paradigms arise for developing complex software systems, systematic reuse continues to be an elusive goal. In this context, the adoption of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) technologies introduces many challenges that still have not been fully overcome, such as the lack of comprehensive mechanisms to record and manage the required information for supporting CO...

At the heart of a well-disciplined, systematic methodology that explicitly supports the use of COTS components is a clearly defined process for effectively using components that meet the needs of the system under development. In this paper, we present the CARE (COTS-Aware Requirements Engineering) Framework, a process-oriented framework which supports the iterative matching, ranking, and select...