Towards Unification of Software Component Procurement and Integration Approaches

Software component procurement and integration are primarily based upon having the right communication mechanisms available that can map component customer requirements to component provider specifications. Such mechanisms are currently only available on lower levels of abstraction, close to the implementation level. This paper describes the research being performed at the TU Delft Embedded Software Laboratory to elevate typical component feature mapping mechanisms from the implementation level up onto the design and requirements engineering levels.