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access icon free Towards a software component assembly evaluation

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Received 20/07/2013, Accepted 26/05/2014, Revised 24/04/2014, Published 12/01/2015

The paradigm of Component-Based Software Engineering aims to develop software by assembling and deploying reusable units, called software components. This approach tries to improve the flexibility, re-usability and maintainability of applications, and helps develop complex and distributed applications deployed on a wide range of platforms, by plugging commercial off-the-shelf components, rather than building them from scratch. In this context, the selection step is very important. It consists of searching and selecting appropriate software components from a set of candidate components in order to satisfy the developer-specific requirements. In the selection process, both functional and non-functional requirements are generally considered. In this study, the authors propose a method enabling quality evaluation of software component assembly. This method allows us to choose the best composition in term of quality.

Inspec keywords: software quality; object-oriented programming; software reusability

Other keywords: commercial off-the-shelf components; selection step; distributed applications; reusability; reusable units; software component assembly evaluation; maintainability; flexibility; quality evaluation; nonfunctional requirements; component-based software engineering

Subjects: Software management; Object-oriented programming; Software engineering techniques

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