Title :
COCOTS risk analyzer
Author :
Yang, Ye ; Boehm, Barry ; Wu, Dan
Author_Institution :
Center for Software Eng., Southern California Univ., USA
Abstract :
Most risk analysis tools and techniques require the user to enter a good deal of information before they can provide useful diagnoses. The COCOTS risk analyzer described here enables the user to obtain a COTS glue code integration risk analysis with no inputs other than the set of glue code cost drivers the user enters to obtain a COCOTS glue code integration effort estimate. The risk assessment is based on an expert Delphi analysis of the relative risks involved in the most critical combinations of COCOTS cost driver ratings. The evaluation of our approach shows that it has done an effective job of estimating the relative risk levels of a sample of small USC e-services projects.
Keywords :
risk analysis; software cost estimation; software packages; COCOTS cost driver rating; COCOTS risk analyzer; COTS glue code integration risk analysis; constructed commercial-off-the-shelf-package; glue code cost driver; Application software; Costs; Humans; Risk analysis; Risk management; Software engineering; Software systems; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS)-Based Software Systems, 2006. Fifth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2515-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICCBSS.2006.8
