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Although commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products are becoming increasingly popular, little information is available on how they affect existing software development processes or what new processes are needed. At Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI), we are developing a process framework for working with COTS-based systems.
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