A Non-Functional Approach for COTS Components Trading

In CBSD, the possible benefits of COTS software development, such as low cost, low risk, and high quality, cannot be satisfactorily achieved due to inadequate and/or incomplete proposals for component specification. In particular, non-functional aspects play an important role for components description and selection, but are usually not taken into account when documenting components and searching for them. In this paper, non-functional features of commercial components are analyzed, and a template for collecting this kind of information in XML documents is proposed in order to allow effective COTS components trading.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: WER
• Authors: Luis Iribarne, Antonio Vallecillo, Carina Alves, Jaelson Castro
• Keywords: COTS Software Development, Effective Cots Components, Non-functional Aspects, Software Engineering, WER 2001