COTS software failures: Can anything be done?

Proceedings - 1998 IEEE Workshop on Application-Specific Software Engineering and Technology, ASSET 1998

Volumn 1998-January, Issue , 1998, Pages 140-144

  Voas, Jeffrey ^a   Payne, Jeffery ^a  

^a Cigital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BUILDING SYSTEMS; COTS SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES; TIME TO MARKET;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 85041696512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASSET.1998.688248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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