Empirical Validation of Component-based Software Systems Generation and Evaluation Approaches

Authors

  • Víctor Sagredo
  • Carlos Becerra
  • Gonzalo Valdes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19153/cleiej.13.1.6

Abstract

Component-based software development needs to formalize a process of generation, evaluation and
selection of Composite COTS-based Software Systems (CCSS), enabling software architects to make early
decisions; the Azimut approach and its associated software tool were proposed to tackle this problem.
This article presents an experimental study conduced to compare Azimut approach with a Systematized
Ad-Hoc approach, regarding generated solutions quality, cost and e®ort. Results suggest that: (1) Azimut
generate better quality solutions at lower cost, but not statistically signi¯cant, and (2) there is strong
evidence showing that the e®ort required is higher than for Systematized Ad-Hoc approach; re-sampling
methods (Bootstrap and Jackknife) were applied to reinforce these conclusions. Also this study serves as
a framework for validating approaches, process and tools for generating and evaluating component-based
software systems.

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Published

2010-04-01

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2010): Special Issue of Best Papers presented at 2nd International Workshop on Advances Software Engineering (IWASE'2009)

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