commercial off-the-shelf software
1Commercial off-the-shelf — In the United States, Commercially available Off The Shelf (COTS) is a Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) term defining a nondevelopmental item (NDI) of supply that is both commercial and sold in substantial quantities in the commercial… …
2Government off-the-shelf — (GOTS) is a term for software and hardware products that are typically developed by the technical staff of the government agency for which it is created. It is sometimes developed by an external entity, but with funding and specification from the …
3Software testing — is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test [ [http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/ETatQAI.pdf Exploratory Testing] , Cem Kaner, Florida Institute of Technology,… …
4Software Security Assurance — Software is itself a resource and thus must be afforded appropriate security. Software also contains and controls data and other resources. Therefore, it must be designed and implemented to protect those resources. Software Security Assurance is… …
5The Standard Procurement System — (SPS) is a software suite providing front office business services to Acquisition professionals in the United States Department of Defense. Program History SPS is an outgrowth of the DoD Corporate Information Management (CIM) initiatives in the… …
6Software Engineering Institute — The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center headquartered on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. SEI also has offices in Arlington …
7Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit — The Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit, or CJMTK (also referred to as C/JMTK), is a replacement for the previous United States Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Mapping Toolkit (JMTK) that utilizes commercial off the shelf (COTS) components. The… …
8Software house — A software house is a company whose primary products are composed of software, i.e., computer programs. Types of software houses There are a number of different types of software houses: *Large and well known companies such as Microsoft, Oracle… …
9History of software engineering — Software engineering has evolved steadily from its founding days in the 1940s until today in the 2000s. Applications have evolved continuously.The ongoing goal to improve technologies and practices, seeks to improve the productivity of… …
10Commercial software — Not to be confused with Business software. Commercial software, or less commonly, payware, is computer software that is produced for sale[1] or that serves commercial purposes. Commercial software is most often proprietary software, but free… …
