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STACE: Social Technical Approach to COTS Software Evaluation

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Component-Based Software Quality

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COTS-Based Systems (CBS) development is a process of building systems from pre-fabricated Commercial-Off-The Shelf (COTS) software components. CBS success depends on successful evaluation and selection of software components to fit customer requirements. Selecting COTS software components to fit requirements is still a problem because of a number of problems including lack of a well-defined process, the “black box” nature of COTS components and the rapid changes in marketplace. This chapter reviews some existing frameworks that support COTS software selection and demonstrate that these frameworks do not adequately address the non-technical issues. The chapter then presents a social-technical approach for COTS software selection, how it deals with non-technical issues, its application in an organization and lessons learnt

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  1. Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IBIS) Project, Ministry of Finance and National Planning, Lusaka, Zambia

    Douglas Kunda

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  1. Computing Sciences Department, GIISCo Research Group, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300, Neuquén, Argentina

    Alejandra Cechich

  2. Dep. of Information Technologies & Systems - Escuela Superior de Informática, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Alarcos Research Group- Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Mario Piattini

  3. Universidad de Málaga, Spain

    Antonio Vallecillo

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Kunda, D. (2003). STACE: Social Technical Approach to COTS Software Evaluation. In: Cechich, A., Piattini, M., Vallecillo, A. (eds) Component-Based Software Quality. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45064-1_4

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