Today, for the reuse community the RiSE is starting one more effort. We will publish in this blog all the M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis defended in our group. Starting, we have Alexandre Alvaro's dissertation, which won the best dissertation award in the Brazilian Simposium on Software Quality.
Here is the abstract of the work: "Component-based software development is becoming more generalized, representing a considerable market for the software industry. The perspective of reduced development costs and shorter life cycles acts as a motivation for this expansion. However, several technical issues remain unsolved before the software components industry reaches the maturity as other software industries.
Problems such as component selection, the lack of component catalogs formalization and the uncertain quality of third-party developed components bring new challenges to the software engineering community. On the other hand, software component certification is still immature and much research is needed in order to create well-defined standards for certification. This dissertation introduces a component quality model, based upon consistent and well-defined characteristics, quality attributes and related metrics for the component evaluation.
A formal case study was used in order to analyze the viability of the use such of a model. The results showed that the model is a good candidate for evaluating software component quality, and future work already scheduled to continue evolving until it reaches a maturation level that makes it applicable in industry."
See the full document here.
1 comment:
has the proposal a guideline to apply in the component evaluation? If not, it is interesting to think about this in order to help in the evaluation.
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