Characterizing a Software Component

Component Based Testing using the Software Development Cycle

The IT community has figured out how to design and implement exceptionally reusable classes amid the previous ten years. This was constrained by writing down the distinctive design patterns and characterizing the component based approach. Presently another aspect turns out to be increasingly vital: do these classes act like it has been characterized amid the design-phase? Existing testbenches d...

Slicing and Characterizing Typical-Case Behavior for Component-Based Embedded Systems

Testing in the Component Age

At the end of the last century, quality and especially reusability problems of object-oriented software cropped out. As a remedy, nowadays component based software development resounds throughout the developer communities. Nevertheless the special aspects of testing component based systems often remain overlooked. After characterizing the main differences between object-oriented and componentba...

Research Issues in Characterizing the Performance of Reusable Software Components

The software reuse practices of many organizations could be described as “ad hoc,” at best. Some reuse efforts do not consider even basic concepts such as completely specifying or correctly verifying reusable code. Those organizations that do attempt to specify formally their reusable assets often do so at the expense of neglecting issues concerned with performance. The area of Software Perform...

Topological properties for characterizing well-formedness of process components

RHODES is an environment for modelling software processes, in which software processes are described by using a Process Modelling Language called PBOOL+. In this environment, a software process is built from PBOOL+ process components that can be reused to construct other processes. To identify well-formed process components, we study properties to be able to characterize topological structure o...