COTS products characterization: Proposal and empirical assessment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2765, Issue , 2003, Pages 233-255

  Bianchi, Alessandro ^a   Caivano, Danilo ^a   Conradi, Reidar ^b   Jaccheri, Letizia ^b   Torchiano, Marco ^c   Visaggio, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Component based software engineering; COTS integration; Empirical studies

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COTS INTEGRATION; EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FIELD EXPERIMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE; MAINTENANCE PROCESS; PARAMETERS CHARACTERIZING;

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EID: 35148901627     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45143-3_13     Document Type: Article

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