Component-Based Software Quality: Methods and Techniques

✍ Scribed by Alejandra Cechich, Mario Piattini, Antonio Vallecillo (auth.), Alejandra Cechich, Mario Piattini, Antonio Vallecillo (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 414
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2693
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Component-based software development, CBSD, is no longer just one more new paradigm in software engineering, but is effectively used in development and practice. So far, however, most of the efforts from the software engineering community have concentrated on the functional aspects of CBSD, leaving aside the treatment of the quality issues and extra-functional properties of software components and component-based systems.
This book is the first one focusing on quality issues of components and component-based systems. The 16 revised chapters presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book; together with an introductory survey, they give a coherent and competent survey of the state of the art in the area. The book is organized in topical parts on COTS selection, testing and certification, software component quality models, formal models to quality assessment, and CBSD management.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Assessing Component-Based Systems....Pages 1-20
COTS-Based Requirements Engineering....Pages 21-39
Domain-Based COTS-Product Selection Method....Pages 40-63
STACE: Social Technical Approach to COTS Software Evaluation....Pages 64-84
SCARLET: Integrated Process and Tool Support for Selecting Software Components....Pages 85-98
Component-Based Software: An Overview of Testing....Pages 99-127
Setting a Framework for Trusted Component Trading....Pages 128-158
Component Integration through Built-in Contract Testing....Pages 159-183
Quality Characteristics for Software Components: Hierarchy and Quality Guides....Pages 184-206
Driving Component-Based Software Development through Quality Modelling....Pages 207-224
Towards a Quality Model for the Selection of ERP Systems....Pages 225-245
Maturing Architectures and Components in Software Product Lines....Pages 246-258
Assessment of High Integrity Software Components for Completeness, Consistency, Fault-Tolerance, and Reliability....Pages 259-286
Reasoning about Software Architectures with Contractually Specified Components....Pages 287-325
Reuse of Formal Verification Efforts of Incomplete Models at the Requirements Specification Stage....Pages 326-351
Risk Management of COTS Based Systems Development....Pages 352-373
A Metrics-Guided Framework for Cost and Quality Management of Component-Based Software....Pages 374-402
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems