In this study, we present a comprehensive descriptive explanation of the various COTS evaluation and selection approaches developed by various researchers in the past to understand the concept of COTS selection. | A systematic review of COTS evaluation and selection approaches Accounting 3 2017 227-236 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Accounting homepage ac A systematic review of COTS evaluation and selection approaches Rakesh Garga a Department of Computer Science amp Engineering Hindu College of Engineering Sonepat Haryana India CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history In the past decades a number of researchers have made their significant contributions to Received September 5 2016 develop different approaches for solving a very challenging problem of commercial off-the Received in revised format shelf COTS selection. The development of software with high quality and minimum November 11 2016 development time has always been a difficult job for the software developers. Therefore in Accepted January 20 2016 Available online today s scenario software developers move towards the implementation of component based January 23 2017 software engineering that relies on the integration of small pieces of code namely COTS . In Keywords this study we present a comprehensive descriptive explanation of the various COTS evaluation Commercial Off-the-Shelf COTS and selection approaches developed by various researchers in the past to understand the CBSE concept of COTS selection. The advantages and disadvantages of each COTS selection approach are also provided which will give a better prospect to the readers to understand the various existing COTS evaluation and selection approaches. 201 7 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction The effective development of the software at a very large scale has been always challenging task to the software developers. The various methods like structure programming object oriented programming etc. have been employed already for the efficient and effective development of any software system. To achieve an effective software development the software developers now move towards the implementation of .
