A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation

July 2004 • Technical Report

Santiago Comella-Dorda, John Dean, Grace Lewis, Edwin J. Morris, Tricia Oberndorf, Erin Harper

This 2004 report focuses on COTS product evaluations conducted for the purpose of selecting products to meet a known need in a system.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017

DOI (Digital Object Identifier):

10.1184/R1/6571721.v1

Subjects

System of SystemsSystem of Systems

Abstract

The growing use of commercial software products in large systems makes evaluation and selection of appropriate products an increasingly essential activity. However, many organizations struggle in their attempts to select appropriate software products for use in systems. As part of a cooperative effort, the Software Engineering Institute and National Research Council Canada have defined a tailorable commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software product evaluation process that can support organizations in making carefully reasoned and sound product decisions. The background fundamentals for that evaluation process, as well as steps and techniques to follow, are described in this report.

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Comella-Dorda, Santiago; Dean, John; Lewis, Grace; Morris, Edwin; Oberndorf, Patricia; & Harper, Erin. A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation. CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017. Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. 2004. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=6701

IEEE

Comella-Dorda. Santiago, Dean. John, Lewis. Grace, Morris. Edwin, Oberndorf. Patricia, and Harper. Erin, "A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017, 2004. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=6701

APA

Comella-Dorda, Santiago., Dean, John., Lewis, Grace., Morris, Edwin., Oberndorf, Patricia., & Harper, Erin. (2004). A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation (CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017). Retrieved May 28, 2023, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=6701

CHI

Santiago Comella-Dorda, John Dean, Grace Lewis, Edwin Morris, Patricia Oberndorf, & Erin Harper. A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation (CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=6701

MLA

Comella-Dorda, Santiago., Dean, John., Lewis, Grace., Morris, Edwin., Oberndorf, Patricia., & Harper, Erin. 2004. A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=6701

BibTex

@techreport{Comella-DordaAProcess2004,
title={A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation},
author={Santiago Comella-Dorda and John Dean and Grace Lewis and Edwin Morris and Patricia Oberndorf and Erin Harper},
year={2004},
number={CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017},
institution={Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University},
address={Pittsburgh, PA},
url={http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=6701} }

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