A Framework for Agile Development of Component-Based Applications

Agile development processes and component-based software architectures are two software engineering approaches that contribute to enable the rapid building and evolution of applications. Nevertheless, few approaches have proposed a framework to combine agile and component-based development, allowing an application to be tested throughout the entire development cycle. To address this problematic, we have built CALICO, a model-based framework that allows applications to be safely developed in an iterative and incremental manner. The CALICO approach relies on the synchronization of a model view, which specifies the application properties, and a runtime view, which contains the application in its execution context. Tests on the application specifications that require values only known at runtime, are automatically integrated by CALICO into the running application, and the captured needed values are reified at execution time to resume the tests and inform the architect of potential problem...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Guillaume Waignier, Estéban Duguepéroux, Anne-Françoise Le Meur, Laurence Duchien
• Keywords: Agile Development, Component-based Software Architectures, CORR 2010, Education, Entire Development Cycle