Component-based software engineering: technologies, development frameworks, and quality assurance sc - Software Engineering Conference, 2000. APSEC 2000. Proceedings. Seventh Asia-Pacific

Component-based software development approach is based on the idea to develop software systems by selecting appropriate of-the-shey components and then to assemble them with a well-defined software architecture. Because the new software development paradigm is much diferent ?om the traditional approach, quality assurance (QA) for component-based software development is a new topic in the software engineering community. In this papec we survey current component-based software technologies, describe their advantages and disadvantages, and discuss the features they inherit. We also address QA issues for component-based soffware. As a major contribution, we propose a Q A model for component-based software development, which covers component requirement analysis, component development, component certification, component customization, and system architecture design, integration, testing, and maintenance.