Summary: Role-Based Wiki for Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Components
Jingyue Li1
, Claudia Ayala1, 2
, and Reidar Conradi1
1
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
2
Technical University of Catalunya (UPC)
jingyue@idi.ntnu.no, cayala@lsi.upc.edu, conradi@idi.ntnu.no
Abstract
IT companies are confronted with a huge, growing
Off-the-Shelf (OTS) marketplace containing incredibly
large amount of diverse, partial, ephemeral, sometimes
tacit and not always trustable information about OTS
components. Our empirical studies illustrate that
different users, such as OTS evaluator, OTS
integrator, system tester, and system maintainer, need
different information and knowledge about OTS
components when facing different scenarios. Although
a few companies are using mini-wikis internally to

Source: Ayala, Claudia - Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences