OTSO: a systematic process for reusable software component selection

Abstract

: This paper presents a method for evaluating and selecting off-the-self software components to be reused in software development. The paper describes the main motivation and principles of the method and provides a provides a detailed description of it. The method has been tried out in two case studies and initial results of these studies are reported. * This work has been supported by the Hughes Information Technology Corporation and the EOS Program. 2 Copyright ESEG 1995 Table of Contents 1.