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Among the main activities involved in COTS-based development there are identification, evaluation, and selection of COTS products. Several techniques have been developed for these activities; all of them are based on measurement of attributes. The effort devoted to these activities is more valuable if the attributes can be reused. Since the evaluation of COTS is a very project-specific activity, the definition of reusable attributes is difficult. Several studies show that it is possible and convenient to develop a reusable attribute framework. We propose a set of simple and generic criteria can be used to validate the set of attributes and improve them.
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Torchiano, M., Jaccheri, L. (2003). Assessment of Reusable COTS Attributes. In: Erdogmus, H., Weng, T. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2580. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36465-X_21
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