Open AccessSoftware Component Certification: A Component Quality Model
Author(s) -
Alexandre Álvaro,
Sílvio R. L. Meira
Publication year - 2006
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5753/sbqs.2006.15630
Subject(s) - certification , component (thermodynamics) , software quality , computer science , software quality control , software engineering , software development , component based software engineering , quality (philosophy) , verification and validation , software construction , software sizing , software measurement , software , software quality analyst , capability maturity model , engineering management , engineering , operations management , operating system , philosophy , physics , epistemology , thermodynamics , political science , law
Component-based software development is becoming more generalized, representing a considerable market for the software industry. However, several technical issues remain unsolved before the software components industry reaches the maturity as other software industries. Problems such as component selection and the uncertain quality of third-party developed components bring new challenges to the software engineering community. In contrast, software component certification is still immature and much research is needed in order to create well-defined standards for certification. This paper introduces a component quality model, based upon consistent and well-defined quality characteristics, and describes a formal case study that was used in order to analyze the viability of the model usage.