Concerning Predictability in Dependable Component-Based Systems: Classification of Quality Attributes

One of the main objectives of developing component-based software systems is to enable efficient building of systems through the integration of components. All component models define some form of component interface standard that facilitates the programmatic integration of components, but they do not facilitate or provide theories for the prediction of the quality attributes of the component compositions. This decreases significantly the value of the component-based approach to building dependable systems. If it is not possible to predict the value of a particular attribute of a system prior to integration and deployment to the target environment the system must be subjected to other procedures, often costly, to determine this value empirically. For this reason one of the challenges of the component-based approach is to obtain means for the "composition" of quality attributes. This challenge poses a very difficult task because the diverse types of quality attributes do not h...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Ivica Crnkovic, Magnus Larsson, Otto Preiss
• Keywords: Component-based Approach, Component-based Software Systems, ICSE 2004, Quality Attributes, Software Engineering