COTS Software Selection Process

Author

Lin, Han ; Lai, Anh ; Ullrich, Rebecca ; Kuca, Michal ; McClelland, Kelly ; Shaffer-Gant, Jessica ; Pacheco, Sandra ; Dalton, Karen ; Watkins, William

Author_Institution

Sandia Nat. Labs., Albuquerque, NM

fYear

2007

fDate

Feb. 26 2007-March 2 2007

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

122

Abstract

Today´s need for rapid software development has generated a great interest in employing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software products as a way of managing cost, developing time, and effort. With an abundance of COTS software packages to choose from, the problem now is how to systematically evaluate, rank, and select a COTS product that best meets the software project requirements and at the same time can leverage off the current corporate information technology architectural environment. This paper describes a systematic process for decision support in evaluating and ranking COTS software. Performed right after the requirement analysis phase, this process provides the evaluators with more concise, structural, and step-by-step activities for determining the best COTS software product with manageable risk. In addition, the process is presented in phases that are flexible to allow for customization or tailoring to meet various projects´ requirements

Keywords

software packages; software performance evaluation; software selection; COTS software selection process; commercial-off-the-shelf software; decision support; rapid software development; requirement analysis; software evaluation; Costs; Information technology; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Programming; Risk analysis; Risk management; Software development management; Software packages; Software performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS)-Based Software Systems, 2007. ICCBSS '07. Sixth International IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Banff, Alta.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2785-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCBSS.2007.11

Filename

4127306