A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation
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.
This report is related to the following area(s) of work:
System of SystemsTechnical Report
CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017
July 2004
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SEI:
Comella-Dorda, Santiago; Dean, John; Lewis, Grace; Morris, Edwin; & Oberndorf, Patricia. A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation (CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tr017.cfm
IEEE:
S. Comella-Dorda, J. Dean, G. Lewis, E. Morris, and P. Oberndorf, "A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017, 2004. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tr017.cfm
APA:
Comella-Dorda, S., Dean, J., Lewis, G., Morris, E., & Oberndorf, P. (2004). A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation (CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017). Retrieved May 18, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tr017.cfm
CHI:
Comella-Dorda, Santiago, John Dean, Grace Lewis, Edwin Morris, and Patricia Oberndorf. A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation (CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tr017.cfm
MLA:
Comella-Dorda, S., Dean, J., Lewis, G., Morris, E., & Oberndorf, P. 2004. A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2003-TR-017). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tr017.cfm
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