Information about DesCOTS-QM

The conceptual model in which the tool is based may be find here. The conceptual model for the taxonomy of software domains is here. The current validated quality models are: Papers published:

• Xavier Franch, Carme Quer, Josep A. Cantón, Roser Salietti "Experience Report on the Construction of Quality Models for Some Content Management Software Domains." ICCBSS 2008

• J.P.Carvallo, X. Franch, G. Grau, C. Quer. "QM: A Tool for Building Software Quality Models". International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'04). Kyoto (Japan), September 2004.

• Gemma Grau, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Xavier Franch & Carme Quer. "DesCOTS: A Software System for Selecting COTS Components". In Proceedings of the 30th EUROMICRO Conference. Rennes, France. Pages 118-126.IEEE Computer Society. 2004.

• X. Franch, J.P. Carvallo. "Using Quality Models in Software Package Selection". IEEE Software, 20(1), January/February 2003.

• J.P. Carvallo; X. Franch; C. Quer. "Defining a Quality Model for Mail Servers". Second International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, ICCBSS 2003, Ottawa (Canada)