In CBSD, the possible benefits of COTS software development, such as low cost, low risk, and high quality, cannot be satisfactorily achieved due to inadequate and/or incomplete proposals for component specification. In particular, non-functional aspects play an important role for components description and selection, but are usually not taken into account when documenting components and searching for them. In this paper, non-functional features of commercial components are analyzed, and a template for collecting this kind of information in XML documents is proposed in order to allow effective COTS components trading.
Keywords: COTS components; Non-functional requirements; Trading; Component-Based Software Development (CBSD).
@inproceedings{wer200117,
author = {Iribarne, L. and Vallecillo, A. and Alves, C. and Castro, J.},
title = {A Non-Functional Approach for COTS Components Trading},
booktitle = {Anais do Workshop em Engenharia de Requisitos - Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER2001)},
year = {2001},
issn = {2675-0066},
isbn = {},
doi = {}
}