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COTS significantly complicates the IV&V process. The necessarily pessimistic culture of IV&V has a perspective on which COTS assessment attributes and techniques are relevant that differs greatly from developer’s typically optimistic, success-oriented perspective. There is no basis to assume that the COTS assessments made by developers will ultimately be consistent with IV&V COTS assessments. The result frequently results in a “lose-lose” situation where either large re-work costs are incurred to replace existing COTS with IV&V approved COTS, or higher risk and uncertainty must be tolerated (from the IV&V perspective) to continue with the COTS the developers chose. This work seeks to remedy this “culture clash” of COTS assessment perspectives by integrating IV&V and developers system level COTS assessments that provides a result that is both consistent and cost-effective.
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Port, D., Nakao, H., Nomoto, H., Mamiya, H., Katahira, M. (2005). Resolving COTS System Assessment Clashes. In: Franch, X., Port, D. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3412. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30587-3_17
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