Barriers to disseminating off-the-shelf based development theories to IT industry

ABSTRACT

In this position paper, we have reported results of an industrial seminar. The seminar was intended to show our findings in an international survey, conducted in Norway, Italy and Germany, on off-the-shelf component-based development. Discussion in the second section of the seminar revealed several obstacles of popularizing the OTS based development theories into IT industry.

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Index Terms

• Social and professional topics

  • Professional topics

    • Computing industry

    • Management of computing and information systems

      • Software management

• Software and its engineering

  • Software creation and management

    • Software verification and validation

      • Process validation