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Open source collaboration for fostering off-the-shelf components selection Ayala Martínez, Claudia Patricia Sørensen, Carl-Fredrik Franch Gutiérrez, Javier Li, Jingyue Conradi, Reidar Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Enginyeria del software Open source software Computer software -- Reusability Off-the-shelf components (OTS) Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Open source collaboration Component selection Reuse Programari lliure Programari -- Reusabilitat The use of Off-The-Shelf software components in Component- Based Development implies many challenges. One of them is the lack of available and well-suited data to support selection of suitable OTS components. This paper proposes a feasible and incremental way to federate and reuse the different efforts for finding, selecting, and maintaining OTS components in a structured way. This is done not only for supporting OTS components selection, but also to overcome reported problems with the integration and maintenance of component repositories. It is based on the “open source collaboration” idea to incrementally build an OTS components reuse infrastructure, enabling automatic support for OTS selection processes. Peer Reviewed Postprint (author's final draft) 2007 Conference report https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-0-387-72486-7_2 Open Access Springer