Title
Improving the Component Discovery Process by Leveraging Automatic Sensitive Analysis
Abstract
Component-based approaches have acquired a prominent role in development of complex software systems. Successful reuse of existing components requires being able to first identify, and then distinguish among, functionally (near-) equivalent elements of large component collections. Similar components can be ranked using quality criteria, thus, some goal-oriented techniques attempt to quantify components quality by indicating valid ranges for their properties and behavior, like stability, latency and so on. Unfortunately, most current techniques yield non-robust ranges, and most tools do not allow architects to observe the range selection during the process. This paper presents a technique for sensitivity analysis of components discovery, built over fuzzy sets. A prototypical tool has been built, and use of the technique and tool are illustrated with an example. This iterative approach allows evaluators to compare "what if" scenarios for alternative component quality criteria, supporting requirements evolution without continuous expert support to recalibrate valid property ranges.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/SBCARS.2011.19
Software Components, Architectures and Reuse
Keywords
Field
DocType
similar component,valid property range,components quality,large component collection,current technique,alternative component quality criterion,component discovery process,goal-oriented technique,components discovery,leveraging automatic sensitive analysis,prototypical tool,quality criterion,sensitivity analysis,goal orientation,software quality,measurement,web service,software systems,sensitive analysis,iterative methods,fuzzy set theory,fuzzy set,pragmatics,shape,web services,object oriented programming,fuzzy sets
Data mining,Object-oriented programming,Ranking,Computer science,Reuse,Iterative method,Software system,Fuzzy set,Business process discovery,Software quality
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-0208-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
13
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Romina Torres18510.38
Hernán Astudillo226436.77