The expansion in use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products has been accompanied by an increase in program failures.
Many of these failures have been due to a lack of familiarity with the changed approach that COTS products demand.
This report describes the development of an approach to reduce the number of program failures attributable to COTS software: the COTS Usage Risk Evaluation (CURE).
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http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/03.reports/03tr023.html
1/15/2004
