Component-Based Software Quality

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.

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 - the first to focus on quality issues of components and component-based systems - is organized in topical parts on COTS selection, testing and certification, software component quality models, formal models to quality assessment, and CBSD management.

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Assessing Component-Based Systems.- Assessing Component-Based Systems.- I COTS Selection.- COTS-Based Requirements Engineering.- Domain-Based COTS-Product Selection Method.- STACE: Social Technical Approach to COTS Software Evaluation.- SCARLET: Integrated Process and Tool Support for Selecting Software Components.- II Testing and Certification.- Component-Based Software: An Overview of Testing.- Setting a Framework for Trusted Component Trading.- Component Integration through Built-in Contract Testing.- III Software Component Quality Models.- Quality Characteristics for Software Components: Hierarchy and Quality Guides.- Driving Component-Based Software Development through Quality Modelling.- Towards a Quality Model for the Selection of ERP Systems.- Maturing Architectures and Components in Software Product Lines.- IV Formal Approaches to Quality Assessment.- Assessment of High Integrity Software Components for Completeness, Consistency, Fault-Tolerance, and Reliability.- Reasoning about Software Architectures with Contractually Specified Components.- Reuse of Formal Verification Efforts of Incomplete Models at the Requirements Specification Stage.- V CBSD Management.- Risk Management of COTS Based Systems Development.- A Metrics-Guided Framework for Cost and Quality Management of Component-Based Software.