Investigating and improving a COTS-based software development process

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 identif...

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Published inProceedings / International Conference on Software Engineering pp. 32 - 41
Main Authors Morisio, M., Seaman, C.B., Parra, A.T., Basili, V.R., Kraft, S.E., Condon, S.E.
Format Conference Proceeding Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2000
Subjects
Educational institutions
NASA
Packaging
Permission
Programming
Software engineering
Software maintenance
Software packages
Software tools
Standards development
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Summary: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.
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ISBN:1581132069
9781581132069
ISSN:0270-5257
1558-1225
DOI:10.1145/337180.337186