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A COTS architectural component specification stencil for selection and reasoning

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MPEC '05: Proceedings of the second international workshop on Models and processes for the evaluation of off-the-shelf components

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1082948.1082959

Published: 21 May 2005 Publication History

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Reusing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components may reduce cost and time-to-market. It may significantly improve software productivity. However, the selection and assessment of COTS components are still a challenge task. It is hard to find the right components that exactly fit into the requirements. The selection processes are in general ad-hoc. Wrong choice of COTS components may compromise the benefits from reusing these components since the chosen component may mismatch with other components and the environment. In this position paper, we advocate a more detailed architectural specification stencil which may help on the component selection and mismatch detection. The architectural specification of a COTS component is encoded in XML so that searching components can be automated. In addition, inconsistencies and mismatches among components can be detected.

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A COTS architectural component specification stencil for selection and reasoning
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
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2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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MPEC '05: Proceedings of the second international workshop on Models and processes for the evaluation of off-the-shelf components

May 2005

44 pages

ISBN:1595931295

DOI:10.1145/1082948

Conference Chairs:
Lawrence Chung
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
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Xavier Franch
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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Neil Maiden
City University, London, UK

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 30, Issue 4
July 2005
1514 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/1082983
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Published: 21 May 2005

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Calvert CHamza-Lup GAgarwal AAlhalabi B(2011)An integrated component selection framework for system-level design2011 IEEE International Systems Conference10.1109/SYSCON.2011.5929038(261-266)Online publication date: Apr-2011
https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSCON.2011.5929038
Chen XLee TKim EJin XPark J(2008)Software Reuse in Development of In-Vehicle Network AnalyzerSAE Technical Paper Series10.4271/2008-01-0273Online publication date: 14-Apr-2008
https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-0273
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