One of the main objectives of developing component-based software systems is to enable
efficient building of systems through the integration of components. All component models …

One of the major challenges to industry today is to provide products with high degrees of
quality and functionality at low cost and short time to market. The cost and time to market …

Performance predictions of component assemblies and the ability of obtaining system-level
performance properties from these predictions are a crucial success factor when building …

Software components are today the most promising approach to dealing with the complexity
and uneven quality of software systems. The design-using-components paradigm has been …

The success of software component applications dependsupon a number of factors, one of
the most important being the quality of components. According to the ISO/IEC 9126 …

We argue that quality attributes of a component are most often not a constant property.
Muchmore, the quality of a component heavily depends on the specific usage context …

In component‐based development, software systems are built by assembling components
already developed and prepared for integration. To estimate the quality of components …

One of the motivations for specifying software architectures explicitly is the use of high level
structural design information for improved control and prediction of software system quality …

Executive Summary The Problem and Need for a Solution. A great deal of attention is
currently being paid to the idea of component-based software development. This involves …

The academic and commercial sectors have shown an interest in Component Based
Software Development (CBSD) because devel-oping and using various component forms as …