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As the amount of software in today’s products increases also the need for subcontracting assessment arises. Frequently questions are posed like: ‘What is the quality of my subcontractor? Or, is this company able to produce part(s) of our software?’ Although, posing the question is easy, answering it is confronted the problem: ‘How to assess the supposed subcontractor while its product does not exist yet?’ A range of assessment methods has been defined over the years as the result of in-house as well as public standardization projects. In this paper the authors analyse these existing methods and propose a ‘best-off’ approach: the so-called MASS: Method for Assessing Software Subcontractors.
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Assmann, D., Punter, T. (2003). Don’t make a mess of software subcontracting!. In: Jagdev, H.S., Wortmann, J.C., Pels, H.J. (eds) Collaborative Systems for Production Management. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 129. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35698-3_42
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