DesCOTS is a system that has an aim to help clients in the selection of COTS components. This system is based in the use of quality models associated to a software domain for evaluating the products in that domain, and for defining in a formal way the requirements of the clients for finding a suitable product in that domain. The evaluation and the formal definition of requirements are facilitated by metrics of each quality entity in the quality models. Our ISO/IEC 9126-1 based quality models are a set of quality entities structured in hierarchies of characteristics, subcharacteristics and attributes; with possible intermediate hierarchies of sub-characteristics and attributes.
DesCOTS is constituted by 4 subsystems. Two of them were presented in past RE conferences: QM, which supports the construction of quality models and EV, which supports the evaluation of products. In this conference we present SL that supports the definition of requirements and the selection of products. Finally, the system administration and the taxonomy construction and management is provided by the subsystem AD.
If you are interested in the DesCOTS-QM and DesCOTS-EV. you can ask for the trial versions sending us a mail message with your name, organization, e-mail address and postal address. In QM you can search a domain in our hierarchy of software domains, and browse the existent and validated quality models (i.e. Web Content Management, Versioning and Concurrent Control or Mail Server). In EV you can create the product evaluation corresponding to the domains of Web Content Management or Reference Management Tools. The manuals for using the tools can be found in manual DesCOTS-QM and manual DesCOTS-EV.
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