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CHAPTER 13 
Software Design Synthesis Practice
For each candidate NDI package the software engineering team must gather 
the information concerning its availability and suitability for incorporation into the 
software design configuration. This information is used to conduct a software reuse 
trade-off analysis. The candidate NDI costs and benefits, performance, and risks 
will be evaluated against the projected implementation and testing costs associated 
with further development of the targeted software structural unit or component. The 
use of commercially off-the-shelf (COTS) database management systems (DBMS) 
or similarly available COTS packages should not warrant a make-or-buy analysis. 
These packages are widely used to support software application development and 
have proven their adaptability to a variety of data persistence tasks.