Experience in using business scenarios to assess COTS components in integrated solutions
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Constructing software by integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components is widely practised, particularly in the IT service industry. For vendors of COTS components, requirements engineering is particularly challenging. To continually improve their products, vendors must identify and analyze problems that occur when their components are used in a wide variety of integrated solutions, and they must anticipate new applications in which their components could be used. In this paper, we describe a scenario-based framework developed at the Software Group division of IBM Corporation (IBM SWG) The framework mimics the solution integration process for new business opportunities, allowing the development teams to evaluate their components, discover and re-solve integration issues, and to surface new requirements for future releases. This paper describes the framework, gives an example of its use in a business scenario, discusses the experience of using this framework at IBM SWG, and relates the lessons learned.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it