Demonstration Guide
USC-CSSE Annual Research Review 2008
Name: Integration Studio (iStudio)
Presenter(s): Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn
Objective: The tool automates the interoperability assessment of COTS-based software
architectures. Based on the high-level COTS-based deployment architectures, the tool
determines the interoperability characteristics between COTS derived from the defined
COTS attributes.
Rationale: The numbers of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products as well as the
software development projects that utilize these products are continuously increasing.
Considering the number of COTS products combination possibilities, COTS-based
projects can often times be confronted with interoperability conflicts and issues causing
schedule and budget overruns. The ability to detect this potential interoperability early in
the project is essential to a successful COTS-based software development. However, the
process of identifying the COTS interoperability requires heavy information gathering and
analysis demanding significant amount of time in the development process. The iStudio
tool automates the interoperability assessment of COTS products and recommends
possible resolutions to the mismatches.
Target Users: This tool is designed for COTS software evaluation teams to assess the
costs of integrating COTS products.
Scope: COTS product definitions. Interoperability analysis.
Project Type: USC-CSSE research project
Runs On:
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Windows 2000, XP with Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0
IPR Status: The iStudio tool is copyright by USC Center for Systems and Software
Engineering and is freely available to affiliates.
Developers:
Model Principle: Jesal Bhuta, Barry Boehm
Tool Development: Jesal Bhuta
Future Directions: Possible extensions to cover hardware COTS and COTS
interoperability between sub-components.
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