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An Approach to Analysis and Design for COTS-Based Systems

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From an analysis and design perspective, developers of COTS-based systems face many challenges driven by built-in product paradigms as well as the volatility of the marketplace. One way to deal with these challenges is to adopt a spiral development process that allows for concurrent discovery and negotiation of user needs and business processes, applicable technology and components, the target architecture, and organizational constraints. This paper outlines a workflow for Analysis and Design that can be used within spiral-based development processes for building systems from commercial components.

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Lewis, G.A. (2005). An Approach to Analysis and Design for COTS-Based Systems. 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_33

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