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COTS Selection Best Practices in Literature and in Industry

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This paper presents an extensive literature survey of the software COTS component selection methods published to date, followed by a meta-model consolidating the activities and practices of these methods. Together with data collected from practitioners and researchers in the embedded systems domain, we provide concrete recommendations which will enable organizations to identify suitable practices when designing a customized selection processes.

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  1. School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

    Rikard Land & Ivica Crnković

  2. Logica, The Netherlands

    Laurens Blankers

  3. Dept. of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

    Laurens Blankers & Michel Chaudron

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Land, R., Blankers, L., Chaudron, M., Crnković, I. (2008). COTS Selection Best Practices in Literature and in Industry. In: Mei, H. (eds) High Confidence Software Reuse in Large Systems. ICSR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5030. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68073-4_9

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