Outline

• COTS Software- What Is It?

• Are contracts or other legal vehicles your best defense against defective third-party software?

• Are there technical approaches that you, a COTS consumer or system integrator, can use to:

  • (1) assess the quality of COTS offerings,
  • (2) assess how fragile the COTS software is,
  • (3) assess how fragile your system is?

• Summary

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