Decision Criteria for Software Component Sourcing - Steps towards a Framework

Rob J. Kusters, Lieven Pouwelse, Harry Martin, Jos Trienekens

2016

Abstract

Software developing organizations nowadays have a wide choice when it comes to sourcing software components. This choice ranges from developing or adapting in-house developed components via buying closed source components to utilizing open source components. This study seeks to determine criteria that software developers can use to make this choice. Answering this question will result in a list of criteria that can, after further validation, be used to develop structured decision support in this type of decision. A first step is a literature search resulting in an initial list. Since the literature used was not specifically targeted at the question at hand, it was decided to separately conduct interviews to obtain an independently derived list of criteria. In a second part of the interview the respondents were confronted with the list resulting from literature. Together this resulted in a preliminary proposal for decision criteria for software sourcing.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kusters R., Pouwelse L., Martin H. and Trienekens J. (2016). Decision Criteria for Software Component Sourcing - Steps towards a Framework . In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-187-8, pages 580-587. DOI: 10.5220/0005915005800587

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis16,
author={Rob J. Kusters and Lieven Pouwelse and Harry Martin and Jos Trienekens},
title={Decision Criteria for Software Component Sourcing - Steps towards a Framework},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2016},
pages={580-587},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005915005800587},
isbn={978-989-758-187-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Decision Criteria for Software Component Sourcing - Steps towards a Framework
SN - 978-989-758-187-8
AU - Kusters R.
AU - Pouwelse L.
AU - Martin H.
AU - Trienekens J.
PY - 2016
SP - 580
EP - 587
DO - 10.5220/0005915005800587