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This paper reports results from a retrospective application of the REACT approach to COTS selection for a real-world financial planning, forecasting and budgeting application. We derived actor-oriented models from existing use cases to represent the architecture of the system. We then investigated which combinations of components could be plugged into the system architecture as instances of model actors, and applied some assessing methods and techniques to evaluate the resulting architectures and the behaviour of the components. From this case study exercise, REACT demonstrated its exploitability for real-world COTS and component selection exercises.
This work has been partially supported by the Spanish project TIC2001-2165.
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Sai, V., Franch, X., Maiden, N. (2004). Driving Component Selection through Actor-Oriented Models and Use Cases. 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_18
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