Paper Info
Title
Evaluating Off-The-Shelf Architectural Components
Abstract
Reuse of off-the-shelf (OTS) components is becoming increasingly, important in most software development projects. Despite such importance, reuse of OTS components at the software architectural level has many challenges before a component-based application (CBA) can successfully be developed. This paper presents a methodology for matching the software developers needs against a repositony of architectural components and ranking the components when there are multiple near matches. The architects can systematically evaluate the architecture of an off-the-shelf component and explore how components with different architectures can be combined to realize a (sub-)system in the architecture of a CBA. The methodology illustrated in this paper uses the Unified Modelling Language (UML) class diagram to represent (part of) the architecture of an off-the-shelf component for a Home Appliance Control System (HACS).
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
SERP '05: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2005 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, VOLS 1 AND 2
evaluating,architecture,off-the-shelf component
Field
DocType
Citations 
Off the shelf,Systems engineering,Computer science,Architectural pattern
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kendra C. Cooper113524.90
Lawrence Chung223636.31
Weimin Ma321.40