IEEE 1062-1998

This is a recommended practice for performing software acquisitions. It describes a set of useful quality practices that can be selected and applied during one or more steps in a software acquisition process. In this recommended practice, software products have been classfied according to the degree to which the acquirer may specify the features of the software. They are: commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS), modified-off-the-shelf (MOTS), and fully developed item