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Course Projects CSCI-588: Specification and Design of User Interface Software Fall 2004 Team 24: Process Assistant for Developing COTS-Based Applications Integrating commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products into a new application has been widely recognized as an easier, faster, and cheaper development approach than the traditional paradigm of developing from scratch, since there are more and more mature, high quality COTS products that are well-tested, well-proven by users available in the marketplace, which can reuse the high quality products, and reduce development cycle. On the other hand, there are sets of new activities, stakeholder roles, as well as risk profiles emerging as challenges to the new type of development. Researchers in COTS field have identified these and proposed different methods to address this in many literatures. The COTS Experience Base System is to implement the COTS Integration Process Framework published in the [1], to guide COTS integrators through their development process, for example, to show “what to do next?”; and also provides guidance (steps, techniques, and examples) for performing each COTS activities, including COTS assessment, COTS tailoring, and glue code development. Also, successful experiences and lessons learned of previous COTS-based development projects will be organized as an experience base, and developers can search through a set of defined context factors. The system can also help developers do risk management based on historic risk profiles.