Multiple authors have proposed metrics to quantify several components characteristics in order to help in its selection. Nevertheless, rather than helping developers, such proposals often provoke more confusion due to the fact that they do not systematically take into account different aspects of the components. Trying to achieve clarity in this...   Read Article.

The European Commission funded CLARiFi project (CLear And Reliable Information For Integration) brings together academic and industrial expertise in the area of component-based software engineering. Its aim is to develop and prototype the techniques needed to produce a commercially viable component broker, based on sound research concepts. This...   Read Article.

Integration of software components into a system can be hindered by incompatibilities between the components and system. To predict the possible incompatibilities and the ways to overcome them during the integration activities, a classification of incompatibilities can be useful for software developers. This can be especially crucial for COTS-based...   Read Article.

This paper discusses component-based development environments (CBDEs). A prototype environment is described that implements the requirements for CBDEs to be used to study the role of environment technology in component-based development. Author(s) : Chris Lüer and David S. Rosenblum...   Read Article.

Starting from an analysis of the situation of a software developer using pre-fabricated components, it is investigated in which form techniques and formalisms from the area of formal specification can provide practical aid in development. Several different dimensions of precise component specification are identified. While formal specifications...   Read Article.

Component-Based Development (CBD) has not redeemed its promises of reuse and flexibility. Reuse is inhibited due to problems such as component retrieval, architectural mismatch, and application specificness. Component-based systems are flexible in the Author(s) : Hans de Bruin and Hans van Vliet...   Read Article.

This slide presentation contains the following topics: background on a new approach, challenges we faced, discovered strategies, lessons learned, and on-going work. Author(s) : John Ohlinger...   Read Article.

This paper focuses on one application domain for which component development is already underway: command and control. A brief description of this effort is provided in the context of the Portable Reusable Integrated Software Modules (PRISM) program and its successor, the Command and Control Product Lines (CCPL) program. CCPL is spearheading the...   Read Article.

Incremental and component-based software development has been proposed to solve the high costs and high failure rates of software projects. Contents include: summary of incremental and component-based software development (INCO), goals, results, resources, state-of-the-art, rationale and approach, workplan, partner description, and associated activities...   Read Article.

Classes are not the best focus for object-oriented design. The most useful components in a design are frameworks - schemes of interaction between objects. These can be worked on by separate authors, kept in libraries, and recombined to make many different end-products. This paper explores the more formal aspects of this approach, within the context...   Read Article.

This PowerPoint presentation on component-based development outlines the following topics: what is the UML, where can UML be used, evolution of UML, vocabulary of UML, structural and behavioral things in UML, grouping things, relationships, diagrams, objectory development process, software development process, workflows, use case model, design model,...   Read Article.

This article discusses a Cutter Consortium survey on component-based developed from 118 companies from around the world. Two issues are looked at: State of the Practice, and Project Coverage. Author(s) : Paul Allen...   Read Article.

This paper contains the three deliverables for work package 3 of the Component+Project. These include: implementation technologies of BIT components, reuse technologies of BIT components, and development of a set of sample BIT components. Author(s) : Component+ Partners...   Read Article.

This PowerPoint presentation on CASE contains the following topics: use of CASE in organizations, and categories of CASE tools (reverse engineering, re-engineering). Also outlined are the components of CASE: upper CASE (diagramming tools, form and report generators, analysis tools), lower CASE (code generators), and cross life-cycle CASE (project...   Read Article.

This paper discusses results from evaluating four leading OO-CASE tools. The evaluation was based on requirements that were generated from current object-oriented modeling research and practice. Author(s) : Danny Greefhorst, Matthijs Maat and Rob Maijers...   Read Article.

Interest in CASE tools has grown because of the important role they play in supporting the software development process. Studies show these complex and sophisticated tools have a positive impact on quality and productivity but they have been slow to be adopted by industry; this is partially explained by the difficulty of learning to use the tool....   Read Article.

This PowerPoint presentation on CASE tools covers the following: automated diagram support, software construction and maintenance, advantages, and disadvantages. Also presented is a UML: history and brief summary. Author(s) : Author Unknown...   Read Article.

This paper discusses a generic process to construct artifact generators using meta-CASE Tools. An overview of the artifact generator construction process is presented. Benefits of this approach and problems found with the approach are also stated. An XML solution is examined. Author(s) : Luiz Paulo Alves Franca and Arndt von Staa...   Read Article.

This slide presentation on using case tools to generate code covers the following topics: CASE technology, generating code from models, reverse engineering, round-trip engineering, code generation, class definition-generic header file, header file with inheritance, hierarchy, one-to-one relationship, one-to-one relationship with link, attribute,...   Read Article.

This paper provides an extended set of tool rating scales and uses them to improve the way CASE tools are effectively evaluated within COCOMO. A Bayesian approach was used to increase prediction accuracy. Contents include: software cost models and productivity impact, COCOMO II and CASE classification, research approach, Bayesian approach for model...   Read Article.