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Within the last years both researchers and practitioners alike have moved beyond establishing COTS quality as an important field to resolving CBS quality problems. However, the science of CBS quality has not yet advanced to the point where there are standard measurement methods, and few enterprises routinely measure COTS quality. Here, a suite of measures is presented to address this problem within a COTS-based software measurement activity. Our measures are based on a formally defined component-based model, aiming at expressing and measuring some aspects of component integrations. Measures are in terms of provided and required services, hence functional suitability might be quantified.
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Cechich, A., Piattini, M. (2004). On the Measurement of COTS Functional Suitability. In: Kazman, R., Port, D. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2959. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24645-9_15
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