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COTS-Based System Engineering: The Linguistics Approach

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COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS 2002)

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As software systems become more and more complex and software artifacts developed by third party emerge frequently, the move towards COTS-based system engineering is a natural maturation process of software engineering. However, current requirements engineering methods for COTS-based systems have proven to be less successful than expected. The paper is an attempt to identify key properties of existing COTS software and other software components. We suggest a systematic approach which examines COTS-related issues under three linguistic levels: lexicon, syntax, and semantics. The driving force behind this approach by analogy is to outline a new requirements engineering method for COTS-based systems.

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  1. Programme Doctoral ESSEC, ESSEC Business School, France

    Nguyen Thanh Quang

  2. University of Cergy-Pontoise and ESSEC, France

    Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau

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  1. National Research Council Canada, Software Engineering Group, 1600 Montreal Road, K1A 0R6, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    John Dean

  2. Pavillon Lucien Brault, Université du Québec à Hull, 101, rue Saint-Jean-Bosco, Hull, J8X 3X7, Québec, Canada

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Quang, N.T., Comyn-Wattiau, I. (2002). COTS-Based System Engineering: The Linguistics Approach. In: Dean, J., Gravel, A. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2255. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45588-4_18

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