Quality models for commercial Off the shelf cots components

Abstract

Component Based Software Development CBSD offers the twin newlineadvantages of reduced development costs and shorter lifecycles Software newlinecomponents can broadly be classified into In House and Commercial Off newlineThe Shelf COTS components Of the two the quality of COTS components newlineis much more difficult to assess because COTS components are sold as black newlineboxes with no access to the source code at all Many research institutions have newlinebeen studying methodologies for component development and newlinestandardization However from the consumers viewpoint there is little newlineachievement in the research of quality evaluation of COTS components This newlineis because of various issues such as lack of information provided by vendors newlineheterogeneous nature of COTS components lack of consensus between newlinedifferent users variation of requirements from organization to organization newlineand finally the question of who gets to evaluate the COTS component quality newline One way to resolve these issues is to try to develop a standard for newlineCOTS component quality using a product oriented approach from the newlineconsumers point of view The objective of this research is to develop a newlinecomprehensive quality model that is suitable for use by end users to assess the newlinequality of COTS components newline newline