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DesCOTS:

A System for Selecting COTS Components

 

2008
 This web page has been translated to http://qualitymodels.blogspot.com

November, 2007

DesCOTS-QM v3.3 available (manual)

(New features: quality patterns manager,

formal definition of requirement patterns)

March 30, 2007

Here you have a new description of the conceptual model in which DesCOTS-QM is based.

Feb 12, 2007

A quality model for Web Content Management Systems has been introduced in DesCOTS-QM 3.2

Feb 12, 2007

Documentation of two processes of construction of quality models

for Document Management Systems (DMS) and

Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECM) in Spanish,

and Web Content Management Systems (WCM) in Catalan

Des 22, 2006

You may already use the DesCOTS tool for consulting validated quality models 

You may see the image of the validated quality models here.

Use the client program DesCOTS-QM v3.2

Just introduce: “user”, “webuser” to have access.

DesCOTS-QM v3.2 manual

Nov 17, 2006

In the next month it will be possible to download

through this web page DesCOTS-QM v3.2

(without previous request of it).

We will provide a user that allows just consulting validated test quality models.

Nov 17, 2006

DesCOTS-QM v3.1 available (manual)

(New features: functionalities copy/cut and paste/overlapping improved)

Oct 11, 2006

DesCOTS-QM v3.0 available (manual)

(New features: usability of the metrics manager improved,

definition of formula metrics added (parse of formulas implemented))

Sept 12, 2006

Slides of the presentation of DesCOTS-SL in RE’06

June 15, 2006

Research demonstration of DesCOTS-SL accepted

for presentation in RE’06

April 6, 2006

DesCOTS-QM 3.0 available by the end of May

(New features: usability of the metrics manager improved,

definition of formula metrics added (parse of formulas implemented))

November 24, 2005

A quality model for Reference Management Tools has been introduced in DesCOTS-QM 2.0

September 20, 2005

Slides of the presentation of DesCOTS-EV in RE’05

June 8, 2005

Research demonstration of DesCOTS-EV accepted

for presentation in RE’05

May 16, 2005

DesCOTS-EV 1.0 manual already available

May 4, 2005

DesCOTS-QM 2.0 manual already available

May 4, 2005

DesCOTS-QM 2.0 already available

April 1, 2005

DesCOTS-QM 2.0 and DesCOTS-EV 1.0

available by the end of April

February 8, 2005

DesCOTS-QM 2.0 available by the end of March.

February 8, 2005

DesCOTS-EV 1.0 available by the end of March.

    

 

 

DesCOTS is decomposed into four subsystems implemented by the following tools:

QM is a tool for the construction of quality models 

EV is a tool for the evaluation of COTS components

SL is a tool for the definition of requirements in COTS selection projects

AD is a tool for the administration of the whole DesCOTS system.

 

 

 

| Functionalities |

 

DesCOTS-QM is a tool aimed to support the construction of quality models based on the quality standard. ISO/IEC 9126-1. It provides functionalities to:

  • Define quality models, based on the ISO/IEC 9126-1 quality standard: define the quality factors that conform a particular quality model; reuse these quality factors among different quality models; establish relationships among them; and define software metrics for their future evaluation.
  • Define requirement patterns.
  • Show permanently a window with the quality model under construction as a tree.
  • Construct the quality model by browsing this tree, and selecting the quality factor that the user wants to deal with.
  • Save the quality models in a repository organised as a taxonomy of domains grouped into categories. A quality model is stored on the scope (domain or category) for which it has been defined.

DesCOTS-EV is a tool that complements QM allowing to manage the evaluations of multiple products. These evaluations are done using quality models defined by means of the QM for the domain to which the products belong to. It provides functionalities to:

  • Manage catalogues of products. These products are related with the domains to which they belong to in the taxonomy of domains and categories.
  • Manage evaluations of the products using the quality models defined by means of QM for the domain to which the products belong to.

| Characteristics |

·  Client/Server architecture

·  Client program developed in Java

·  Client program provides an attractive MSWindows oriented interface

·  Server program developed with JAVATM servlets

·  Data persistency maintained using MySQL 

·  Client/Server communication done by means of the HTTP protocol. 

·  Communication between client and server programs based on XML.

| Publications |

 

·        C. Quer, X. Franch, X. Lopez-Pelegrín. "DesCOTS-EV: A Tool for the Evaluation of COTS Components". Demonstration to be presented during the International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'05), Paris (France), September 2005 (slides)

·        J.P.Carvallo, X. Franch, G. Grau, C. Quer. "QM: A Tool for Building Software Quality Models". Demonstration presented during the International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'04), Kyoto (Japan), September 2004.

·        Gemma Grau, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch & Carme Quer. "DesCOTS: A Software System for Selecting COTS Components". In Proceedings of the 30th EUROMICRO Conference. Rennes, France. Pages 118-126.IEEE Computer Society. 2004. (slides)

·        J.P.Carvallo, X. Franch, G. Grau, C. Quer. "QM: A Tool for Building Software Quality Models". Research Report LSI-04-10-R, 2004. (full paper)

·        X. Franch, J.P. Carvallo. "Using Quality Models in Software Package Selection". IEEE Software, 20(1), January/February 2003, pp. 34-41.

·        J.P. Carvallo; X. Franch; C. Quer. "Defining a Quality Model for Mail Servers". Second International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, ICCBSS 2003, Ottawa (Canada) (preliminary version)

 

| Tool Manuals |

· Access to the DesCOTS-QM 3.1 user manual.

·   Access to the DesCOTS-QM 3.0 user manual.   

·   Access to the DesCOTS-QM 2.0 user manual.

·  Access to the DesCOTS-EV 1.0 user manual.

| UML |

 

·          UML – Conceptual model in which DesCOTS-QM is based (here)

·          UML – Taxonomy (here)

 

| Free Use |

 

 

You may already use the DesCOTS tool for consulting validated quality models 

You may see the image of the validated quality models here.

Now also Web Content Management (WCM) and in a few months Document Management (DMS).

Use the client program DesCOTS-QM v3.2

Just introduce: “user”, “webuser” to have access.

DesCOTS-QM v3.2 manual

 

If you are interested in the new versions of DesCOTS-QM and DesCOTS-EV tools, just send us a mail message with your name, organization, e-mail address and postal address.

 

Taking into account that DesCOTS-QM and DesCOTS-EV are client/server tools, you will need to be connected to INTERNET in order to use them.

 

Contact us in case you are interested in using the tools for

defining new models: Carme Quer