BALANCING STAKEHOLDER’S PREFERENCES ON MEASURING COTS COMPONENT FUNCTIONAL SUITABILITY

Alejandra Cechich, Mario Piattini

2004

Abstract

COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) components can be incorporated into other systems to help software developers to produce a new system, so that both artefacts – components and the system – form a single functional entity. In that way, developing software becomes a matter of balancing required and offered functionality between the parties. But required functionality is highly dependent on component’s users, i.e. stakeholders of a COTS component selection process. Inputs to this process include discussions with composers, reuse architects, business process coordinators, and so forth. In this paper, we present an approach for balancing stakeholder’s preferences, which can be used in the process of measuring functional suitability of COTS candidates. We describe and illustrate the use of our proposal to weight requirements of components and determine suitable COTS candidates for given software.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cechich A. and Piattini M. (2004). BALANCING STAKEHOLDER’S PREFERENCES ON MEASURING COTS COMPONENT FUNCTIONAL SUITABILITY . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 115-122. DOI: 10.5220/0002607201150122

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Alejandra Cechich and Mario Piattini},
title={BALANCING STAKEHOLDER’S PREFERENCES ON MEASURING COTS COMPONENT FUNCTIONAL SUITABILITY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={115-122},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002607201150122},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - BALANCING STAKEHOLDER’S PREFERENCES ON MEASURING COTS COMPONENT FUNCTIONAL SUITABILITY
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Cechich A.
AU - Piattini M.
PY - 2004
SP - 115
EP - 122
DO - 10.5220/0002607201150122