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Q'Facto 12: an improved quality model for COTS components

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Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) offers developers the twin benefits of reduced software life cycles and shorter devel-opment times. However the success of the component based para-digm depends on the quality of the COTS components purchased and integrated into the existing software systems. The need of the hour therefore is a quality model that can be used by software de-velopers to evaluate the quality of software components before integrating them into existing systems. This paper discusses a qual-ity model called Q'Facto12 based on the ISO25000 quality standard that can be used to evaluate the quality of COTS com-ponents. The model is an upgrade of an earlier model called the Q'Facto 10 model that was proposed by us. This paper provides an outline of the Q'Facto 12 model compares the model with the Q'Facto 10 model and highlights why the Q'Facto 12 model is better than the Q'Facto 10 model. An experimental study to demonstrate the use of the model has also been presented

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cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes  Volume 35, Issue 2
March 2010
113 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/1734103
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Published: 27 March 2010
Published in SIGSOFT Volume 35, Issue 2

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  1. COTS components
  2. ISO25000
  3. ISO9126
  4. quality criteria
  5. quality factors
  6. quality measures

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