Selection of third party software in Off-The-Shelf-based software development - An interview study with industrial practitioners

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 620-637

  Ayala, Claudia ^a   Hauge, Øyvind ^b   Conradi, Reidar ^b   Franch, Xavier ^a   Li, Jingyue ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c DNV GL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Component selection; Empirical study; Off The Shelf based software development; Software engineering; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT REPOSITORY; COMPONENT SELECTION; EMPIRICAL STUDY; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; INDUSTRIAL PRACTITIONERS; INTERVIEW STUDY; OFF-THE-SHELF-BASED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; POTENTIAL MARKETS; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; REUSABLE COMPONENTS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE REUSE; THEORY AND PRACTICE; THIRD PARTIES; THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE; WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INDUSTRY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79751530280     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.10.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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