Choosing Component Origins for Software Intensive Systems: In-House, COTS, OSS or Outsourcing? - A Case Survey

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 237-261

  Petersen, Kai ^a   Badampudi, Deepika ^a   Shah, Syed Muhammad Ali ^b   Wnuk, Krzysztof ^a   Gorschek, Tony ^a   Papatheocharous, Efi ^b   Axelsson, Jakob ^b   Sentilles, Séverine ^c   Crnkovic, Ivica ^d   Cicchetti, Antonio ^c  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^c MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

COTS; Decision making; in house; OSS; outsourcing

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; OUTSOURCING; SURVEYS;

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GROUP DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; OFFTHE-SHELF (OTS); OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE INTENSIVE SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 85044103443     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: 19393520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2017.2677909     Document Type: Article

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