Component-based software development focuses on building large software systems by integrating existing software components to reduce cost, risk and time. However, behavioural and...
Service Oriented Architectures draw heavily on techniques for reusing and assembling off-the-shelf software components. While powerful, this programming practice is not without a ...
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Testing plays an important role in the maintenance of Component Based Software Development. Test adequacy for component testing is one of the hardest issues for component testing....
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Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components are being used within complex safety-critical applications. However, to use them with confidence, it is necessary to ensure tha...
Contracts and specifications have long been used in object-oriented design, programming and testing to enhance reliability before software deployment. However, the use of specifica...