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Assessment and evaluation of COTS software products has become a compulsory and crucial part of any COTS-based software system lifecycle. A risk of selecting a product with unknown quality properties is no longer acceptable. This paper presents a framework for quality evaluation process of COTS software products. Our approach, based on the latest international standards for software product quality and evaluation, provides acquirers of COTS software with a method to select software products with identified and measured quality characteristics.
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Beus-Dukic, L., Bøegh, J. (2003). COTS Software Quality Evaluation. In: Erdogmus, H., Weng, T. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2580. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36465-X_7
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