Open AccessPerceived Subjective Features of Software Components: Consumer Behavior in a Software Component Market
Author(s) -
Lee Janghyuk,
Hong SeJoon,
Sawng YeongWha,
Kim Ju Seong
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
etri journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2233-7326
pISSN - 1225-6463
DOI - 10.4218/etrij.09.0108.0643
Subject(s) - software construction , component based software engineering , software development , software sizing , component (thermodynamics) , package development process , computer science , social software engineering , software engineering , software , reuse , software quality , engineering , operating system , physics , waste management , thermodynamics
Component‐based software reuse has been generally regarded as a promising approach to improving software productivity and quality within software development. However, progress in component‐based software reuse has been slower than expected. Much of the software reuse literature points to the lack of software components that can maximize users’ benefits as the most important source of the slow progress. Considering that the underlying processes behind component‐based software reuse are strikingly similar to commercial software marketing, this paper attempts to identify the aspects of software components that consumers value and to establish relationships between the identified aspects and consumer behavior in the software component market. More specifically, this paper focuses on the perceived subjective features of software components. This study was conducted in a web‐based artificial market environment called “SofTrade.”