CSCI 577b Homework #7

COTS Assignment

30 Points - Due Wednesday, April 12, 2000 in class at 3:30 pm

Read the article, "Architectural Mismatch: Why Software Reuse is So Hard," by David Garlan et al. (IEEE Software, November 1995, pp. 17-26); EP-11.

Develop a concise COTS integration risk management plan that would have mitigated the risks that the CMU team encountered in trying to integrate the COTS products Soft Bench, OBST, Inter Views, and Mach RPC Interface Generator, into the Aesop system.