On the
Use of Quality Models for COTS Evaluation
Software
quality models have been widely used for assessing software quality
during
software systems development, but their use for facilitating COTS
evaluation
(as a basis for COTS selection) has been not so extensively reported.
We think
that this situation should change, because quality models present some
interesting properties for driving COTS evaluation: they are highly
structured;
there exist some standards available; they can be tailored to specific
domains;
they provide a measurable basis for the evaluation of software quality;
etc. In
this paper, we provide a summary of the experiences of our group in the
use of
quality models for COTS selection, and we highlight some open issues
that we
are currently dealing with.