Commercial-off-the-shelf components (COTS) are widely reused at present and black-box composition is the unique way to integrate them into the target system. However, various mism...
: The approach of aggregating components into complex software systems is maturing with the rapid development of component technology. How to analyze software reliability from syst...
While the use of software component models has become popular in the development of desktop applications and distributed information systems, such models have not been widely used...
1 In this paper we characterize and model the cost of rework in a Component Factory (CF) organization. A CF is responsible for developing and packaging reusable software components...
Victor R. Basili, Steven E. Condon, Khaled El Emam...
Quality and risk concerns currently limit the application of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components to non-critical applications. Software metrics can quantify factor...