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International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems

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Analysing the Impact of Change in COTS-Based Systems

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Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components promise benefits in terms of greater productivity, reduced time to market and reliability. However, their blackbox nature poses significant challenges assessing and managing the impact of change. We propose an approach to help developers to understand the impact of change. It relies on the use of a COTS component-oriented development process and an architecture description language (ADL) for documenting component system architectures; both elements contributing to create a combined approach to impact analysis in COTS-based system.

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  1. Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK

    Gerald Kotonya & John Hutchinson

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  1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC),, UPC – Campus Nord, Omega building, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Xavier Franch

  2. Information Technology Management, University Hawaii, Honolulu, 96822, Hawaii, USA

    Daniel Port

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Kotonya, G., Hutchinson, J. (2005). Analysing the Impact of Change in COTS-Based Systems. 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_31

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