This report gives an overview of the 6th ICSE Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering held at 25th International Conference on Software Engineering. The workshop brought together researchers and practitioners from three communities: component technology, software architecture, and software certification. The primary goal of the workshop was to continue clarifying the concepts, identifying the main challenges and findings of predictable assembly of certifiable software components. This report gives a comprehensive summary of the position papers, of the workshop, its findings, and its results.
Ivica Crnkovic, Heinz W. Schmidt, Judith A. Staffo