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Software projects involving integration of multiple commercial as well as in-house components, often confront interoperability problems. This is a result of the component selection process being limited to piecewise evaluation of system capabilities while neglecting a more thorough evaluation of interoperability between candidate components. Such problems often lead to increased costs and schedule overruns. Based on empirical data gathered from five years of developing e-services applications at USC-CSE, we have developed and applied a method for component selection that focuses on piecewise evaluation, as well as the interoperability between the candidate components. In this paper we describe the method and present a real-world example showing how it operates within the spiral process model generator.
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Bhuta, J., Boehm, B. (2005). A Method for Compatible COTS Component Selection. In: Franch, X., Port, D. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3412. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30587-3_23
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