On the use of quality models for COTS evaluation
Juan Pablo Carvallo · 2004
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. 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.