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Quality Software, Fourth International Conference on (QSIC'04)   pp. 214-221
COSTUME: A Method for Building Quality Models for Composite COTS-Based Software Systems
Juan P. Carvallo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona (Catalunya, Spain)
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona (Catalunya, Spain)
Gemma Grau, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona (Catalunya, Spain)
Carme Quer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona (Catalunya, Spain)

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Abstract
The use of quality models during the selection of Commercial, Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products provides a framework for the description of the domains which the COTS products belong to. Descriptions of COTS products and user quality requirements may be translated into the quality concepts defined in the model, making selection more efficient and reliable. In this paper we propose a method for the construction of quality models for Composite COTS-based Software Systems (CCSS), defined as systems that are composed by several interconnected COTS products. Selection processes carried out when procuring a CCSS require not a single COTS product to be selected but a set of them. As a consequence, instead of a classical quality model, we need a more elaborated one, defined as the composition of those models that belong to the domains of the COTS products that form the CCSS.
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Citation:  Juan P. Carvallo, Xavier Franch, Gemma Grau, Carme Quer, "COSTUME: A Method for Building Quality Models for Composite COTS-Based Software Systems," qsic, pp. 214-221,  Quality Software, Fourth International Conference on (QSIC'04),  2004