Evaluation of component technologies with respect to industrial requirements

Abstract

Abstract

Visualization of Areas of Interest in Component-Based System Architectures

“…or "what happens if I change this component?" [10] Components that share some common property are of particular interest in system analysis, e.g. "all highreliability components", "all components using over 1 MB of memory", "all components introduced in the system version 2.3", or "all components in the same thread" [15].…”

Visualization of areas of interest in software architecture diagrams

“…or "what happens if I change this component?" [Möller et al 2004] Software elements that share a common property are of particular interest in system analysis, e.g. "all high-reliability components", "all components using over 1 MB of memory", "all components introduced in the system version 2.3", or "all components in the same thread" [Voinea and Telea 2004].…”

Visual Assessment Techniques for Component-Based Framework Evolution

“…However, as the number of component models increases, a new challenge arises: how to discriminate among models that satisfy the same set of requirements such that the best suited one is selected as development base for a given system. Using the evaluation methodology proposed in [4], one can easily reach the conclusion that for example the Koala [6], and PECOS [9] component models offer similar benefits from the point of view of testability, resource utilization, and availability of a computational model. When these are the only important nonfunctional requirements for the component model, the selection of the best suited model can be further refined on two directions.…”

“…While it has proven to be successful in many application domains such as office and distributed internet-based applications, the component-based approach toward development is still to be validated in the area of dependable systems, which have special requirements on the quality attributes. Möller et al [4] have elaborated a set of such requirements, and classified a number of existing component models according to their conformance to the set. However, as the number of component models increases, a new challenge arises: how to discriminate among models that satisfy the same set of requirements such that the best suited one is selected as development base for a given system.…”