This document provides an overview of component-based software engineering (CBSE). It discusses CBSE processes, component models, composition, and issues related to developing and reusing components. Specifically, it covers CBSE for reuse, which focuses on developing reusable components, and CBSE with reuse, which is the process of developing new applications using existing components. Component identification, validation, and resolving interface incompatibilities during composition are also addressed.
Architectural design involves identifying major system components and their communications. Architectural views provide different perspectives of the system, such as conceptual, logical, process, and development views. Common architectural patterns include model-view-controller, layered, client-server, and pipe-and-filter architectures. Application architectures define common structures for transaction processing, information, and language processing systems.
This document provides an overview of topics covered in Chapter 7 on software design and implementation, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, implementation issues, and open source development. It discusses the design and implementation process, build vs buy approaches, object-oriented design processes involving system models, and key activities like defining system context, identifying objects and interfaces. Specific examples are provided for designing a wilderness weather station system.
This document provides an overview of key topics in distributed software engineering. It discusses distributed systems issues, architectural patterns for distributed systems like client-server and peer-to-peer, and software as a service. Some important considerations for designing distributed systems include transparency, openness, scalability, security, and failure management. Middleware helps manage communication and interoperability between diverse components in a distributed system.
This document provides an overview of key topics in service-oriented architecture (SOA) including:
- Services can be implemented as reusable components that are independent of the applications that use them.
- Web services standards like SOAP, WSDL, and WS-BPEL allow services to be described and composed into workflows.
- Service-oriented development involves identifying candidate services, designing service interfaces, and implementing and deploying services. Existing systems can be wrapped as services to promote reuse.
This document discusses key topics in systems engineering, including:
1) Systems engineering involves procuring, designing, implementing, and maintaining sociotechnical systems that include both technical and human elements.
2) Software systems are part of broader sociotechnical systems and software engineers must consider human, social, and organizational factors.
3) Sociotechnical systems have emergent properties that depend on the interactions between system components and cannot be understood by examining the components individually.
System modeling involves creating abstract models of a system from different perspectives, such as context, interactions, structure, and behavior. These models help analysts understand system functionality and communicate with customers. Context models show a system's external environment and relationships. Interaction models, such as use case and sequence diagrams, depict how users and systems interact. Structural models, like class diagrams, represent a system's internal organization. Behavioral models, including activity and state diagrams, illustrate a system's dynamic response to events or data. Model-driven engineering aims to generate implementation from system models.
This document discusses software reuse and application frameworks. It covers the benefits of software reuse like accelerated development and increased dependability. Application frameworks provide a reusable architecture for related applications and are implemented by adding components and instantiating abstract classes. Web application frameworks in particular use the model-view-controller pattern to support dynamic websites as a front-end for web applications.
The document discusses requirements engineering for software systems. It covers topics like functional and non-functional requirements, the software requirements document, requirements specification processes, and requirements elicitation, analysis, and management. Requirements engineering is the process of establishing customer needs for a system and constraints for its development and operation. Requirements can range from abstract to highly detailed and serve different purposes depending on their intended use.
Architectural design involves identifying major system components and their communications. Architectural views provide different perspectives of the system, such as conceptual, logical, process, and development views. Common architectural patterns include model-view-controller, layered, client-server, and pipe-and-filter architectures. Application architectures define common structures for transaction processing, information, and language processing systems.
This document provides an overview of topics covered in Chapter 7 on software design and implementation, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, implementation issues, and open source development. It discusses the design and implementation process, build vs buy approaches, object-oriented design processes involving system models, and key activities like defining system context, identifying objects and interfaces. Specific examples are provided for designing a wilderness weather station system.
This document provides an overview of key topics in distributed software engineering. It discusses distributed systems issues, architectural patterns for distributed systems like client-server and peer-to-peer, and software as a service. Some important considerations for designing distributed systems include transparency, openness, scalability, security, and failure management. Middleware helps manage communication and interoperability between diverse components in a distributed system.
This document provides an overview of key topics in service-oriented architecture (SOA) including:
- Services can be implemented as reusable components that are independent of the applications that use them.
- Web services standards like SOAP, WSDL, and WS-BPEL allow services to be described and composed into workflows.
- Service-oriented development involves identifying candidate services, designing service interfaces, and implementing and deploying services. Existing systems can be wrapped as services to promote reuse.
This document discusses key topics in systems engineering, including:
1) Systems engineering involves procuring, designing, implementing, and maintaining sociotechnical systems that include both technical and human elements.
2) Software systems are part of broader sociotechnical systems and software engineers must consider human, social, and organizational factors.
3) Sociotechnical systems have emergent properties that depend on the interactions between system components and cannot be understood by examining the components individually.
System modeling involves creating abstract models of a system from different perspectives, such as context, interactions, structure, and behavior. These models help analysts understand system functionality and communicate with customers. Context models show a system's external environment and relationships. Interaction models, such as use case and sequence diagrams, depict how users and systems interact. Structural models, like class diagrams, represent a system's internal organization. Behavioral models, including activity and state diagrams, illustrate a system's dynamic response to events or data. Model-driven engineering aims to generate implementation from system models.
This document discusses software reuse and application frameworks. It covers the benefits of software reuse like accelerated development and increased dependability. Application frameworks provide a reusable architecture for related applications and are implemented by adding components and instantiating abstract classes. Web application frameworks in particular use the model-view-controller pattern to support dynamic websites as a front-end for web applications.
The document discusses requirements engineering for software systems. It covers topics like functional and non-functional requirements, the software requirements document, requirements specification processes, and requirements elicitation, analysis, and management. Requirements engineering is the process of establishing customer needs for a system and constraints for its development and operation. Requirements can range from abstract to highly detailed and serve different purposes depending on their intended use.
This document provides an overview of software reuse techniques discussed in Chapter 16, including:
1) Application frameworks which provide reusable skeleton designs through abstract and concrete classes;
2) Software product lines which allow generic applications to be adapted through configuration, component selection, and specialization for different requirements;
3) COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) product reuse where pre-existing software systems can be customized through deployment configuration without changing source code.
The document discusses reliability engineering and fault tolerance. It covers topics like availability, reliability requirements, fault-tolerant architectures, and reliability measurement. It defines key terms like faults, errors, and failures. It also describes techniques for achieving reliability like fault avoidance, fault detection, and fault tolerance. Specific architectures discussed include redundant systems and protection systems that can take emergency action if failures occur.
This document discusses component-based software engineering (CBSE). It covers topics like components and component models, CBSE processes, and component composition. The key points are:
- CBSE relies on reusable software components with well-defined interfaces to improve reuse. Components are more abstract than classes.
- Essentials of CBSE include independent, interface-specified components; standards for integration; and middleware for interoperability.
- CBSE is based on principles like independence, hidden implementations, and replaceability through maintained interfaces.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Rapid and iterative development is emphasized to quickly adapt to changing requirements. Methods like Extreme Programming (XP) use practices like user stories, test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous refactoring to develop working software in short iterations.
This document discusses configuration management (CM) and version control. It covers topics like version management, system building, change management, and release management. CM is important for software development as it allows tracking of changing software systems and components. Version control systems are key to CM, identifying and storing different versions. They support independent development through a shared repository and private workspaces. Developers check components in and out to make changes separately without interfering with each other.
The document discusses various types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover defects.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to validate the software meets requirements before release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are validation, to ensure requirements are met, and defect testing to discover faults. Automated unit testing and test-driven development help improve test coverage and regression testing.
This document discusses systems of systems and complexity. It begins by defining systems of systems and providing examples. Key characteristics of systems of systems include operational and managerial independence of elements, and evolutionary development. The document then covers sources of complexity, including technical, managerial and governance complexity. It discusses how reductionism has traditionally been used to manage complexity in engineering but has limitations for large systems of systems.
The chapter discusses software evolution, including that software change is inevitable due to new requirements, business changes, and errors. It describes how organizations must manage change to existing software systems, which represent huge investments. The majority of large software budgets are spent evolving, rather than developing new, systems. The chapter outlines the software evolution process and different approaches to evolving systems, including addressing urgent changes. It also discusses challenges with legacy systems and their management.
This document discusses software processes and process models. It covers topics such as the waterfall model, incremental development, integration and configuration, process activities including specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It also discusses coping with change through techniques like prototyping and incremental delivery. The key aspects of software process models, activities, and improvement are summarized.
The document discusses different types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover bugs during development. Unit testing involves testing individual program units in isolation.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to test a complete version before public release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are to demonstrate that software meets requirements and to discover incorrect or undesirable behavior to find defects. Different testing types include validation testing to check correct functionality and defect testing to uncover bugs. Both inspections and testing are important and complementary methods in software verification.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch 4Mohammed Romi
The document discusses requirements engineering and summarizes key topics covered in Chapter 4, including:
- The importance of specifying both functional and non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements place constraints on system functions and development process.
- The software requirements specification document defines what the system must do and includes both user and system requirements. It should not describe how the system will be implemented.
- Requirements engineering involves eliciting, analyzing, validating and managing requirements throughout the development lifecycle. Precise, complete and consistent requirements are important for development.
This chapter discusses distributed software engineering and distributed systems. It covers topics like distributed system characteristics including resource sharing, openness, concurrency, scalability and fault tolerance. Some key issues with distributed systems are their complexity, lack of single control, and independence of parts. The chapter addresses design issues for distributed systems such as transparency, openness, scalability, security, quality of service, and failure management. It also covers models of interaction, middleware, and client-server computing.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 15 on resilience engineering. It discusses resilience as the ability of systems to maintain critical services during disruptions like failures or cyberattacks. Resilience involves recognizing issues, resisting failures when possible, and recovering quickly through activities like redundancy. The document also covers sociotechnical resilience, where human and organizational factors are considered, and characteristics of resilient organizations like responsiveness, monitoring, anticipation, and learning.
This document provides an overview of key topics from Chapter 11 on security and dependability, including:
- The principal dependability properties of availability, reliability, safety, and security.
- Dependability covers attributes like maintainability, repairability, survivability, and error tolerance.
- Dependability is important because system failures can have widespread effects and undependable systems may be rejected.
- Dependability is achieved through techniques like fault avoidance, detection and removal, and building in fault tolerance.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch2Mohammed Romi
This document summarizes key aspects of software processes and models. It discusses the basic activities involved in software development like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It describes process models like waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented processes. The waterfall model involves sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Validation includes testing stages from unit to system level. The document also covers designing for change and evolution.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering topics including:
1. What software engineering is, its importance, and the software development lifecycle activities it encompasses.
2. The many different types of software systems that exist and how software engineering approaches vary depending on the application.
3. Key fundamentals of software engineering that apply universally, including managing development processes, dependability, and reusing existing software components.
The document discusses chapter 7 of a software engineering textbook which covers design and implementation. It begins by outlining the topics to be covered, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, and implementation issues. It then discusses the software design and implementation process, considerations around building versus buying systems, and approaches to object-oriented design using UML.
This document discusses system modeling and different types of models used in system modeling. It covers context models, interaction models, structural models, behavioral models, and model-driven engineering. Some key points include:
- System modeling involves developing abstract models of a system from different perspectives or views. Models are often developed using the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
- Common model types include use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, state diagrams, and activity diagrams.
- Structural models show the organization and structure of a system. Behavioral models show the system's dynamic behavior and responses to events.
- Model-driven engineering is an approach where models rather than code are the primary outputs and code is generated
This document summarizes key points from a lecture on aspect-oriented software development:
1. Aspect-oriented development supports separating concerns by representing cross-cutting concerns as aspects. This allows individual concerns to be understood, reused, and modified without changing other parts of the program.
2. Viewpoint-oriented requirements engineering focuses on stakeholder concerns and identifies cross-cutting concerns that affect all viewpoints.
3. Designing aspect-oriented systems involves identifying core functionality, aspects, and where aspects should be composed with the core. Testing aspect-oriented programs poses challenges around program inspection and deriving tests.
This document provides an overview of topics in chapter 13 on security engineering. It discusses security and dependability, security dimensions of confidentiality, integrity and availability. It also outlines different security levels including infrastructure, application and operational security. Key aspects of security engineering are discussed such as secure system design, security testing and assurance. Security terminology and examples are provided. The relationship between security and dependability factors like reliability, availability, safety and resilience is examined. The document also covers security in organizations and the role of security policies.
Software connectors are architectural elements that model interactions between components. They define rules governing interactions and provide channels for transferring control and data. In software systems, connectors are often not explicitly implemented but distributed across code, while in architectures they are first-class entities with identities. Treating connectors independently from components supports separation of interaction from computation and facilitates software evolution.
An example of Future composition in a real appPhil Calçado
The document discusses using concurrency and parallelism in a Rails application to improve performance. It provides an example of making 50 concurrent requests that take 10-40 milliseconds each, with the total response time being 152 milliseconds, showing a performance improvement over sequential requests. It raises the challenge of how to detect opportunities to take advantage of concurrency that may not be obvious.
This document provides an overview of software reuse techniques discussed in Chapter 16, including:
1) Application frameworks which provide reusable skeleton designs through abstract and concrete classes;
2) Software product lines which allow generic applications to be adapted through configuration, component selection, and specialization for different requirements;
3) COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) product reuse where pre-existing software systems can be customized through deployment configuration without changing source code.
The document discusses reliability engineering and fault tolerance. It covers topics like availability, reliability requirements, fault-tolerant architectures, and reliability measurement. It defines key terms like faults, errors, and failures. It also describes techniques for achieving reliability like fault avoidance, fault detection, and fault tolerance. Specific architectures discussed include redundant systems and protection systems that can take emergency action if failures occur.
This document discusses component-based software engineering (CBSE). It covers topics like components and component models, CBSE processes, and component composition. The key points are:
- CBSE relies on reusable software components with well-defined interfaces to improve reuse. Components are more abstract than classes.
- Essentials of CBSE include independent, interface-specified components; standards for integration; and middleware for interoperability.
- CBSE is based on principles like independence, hidden implementations, and replaceability through maintained interfaces.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Rapid and iterative development is emphasized to quickly adapt to changing requirements. Methods like Extreme Programming (XP) use practices like user stories, test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous refactoring to develop working software in short iterations.
This document discusses configuration management (CM) and version control. It covers topics like version management, system building, change management, and release management. CM is important for software development as it allows tracking of changing software systems and components. Version control systems are key to CM, identifying and storing different versions. They support independent development through a shared repository and private workspaces. Developers check components in and out to make changes separately without interfering with each other.
The document discusses various types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover defects.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to validate the software meets requirements before release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are validation, to ensure requirements are met, and defect testing to discover faults. Automated unit testing and test-driven development help improve test coverage and regression testing.
This document discusses systems of systems and complexity. It begins by defining systems of systems and providing examples. Key characteristics of systems of systems include operational and managerial independence of elements, and evolutionary development. The document then covers sources of complexity, including technical, managerial and governance complexity. It discusses how reductionism has traditionally been used to manage complexity in engineering but has limitations for large systems of systems.
The chapter discusses software evolution, including that software change is inevitable due to new requirements, business changes, and errors. It describes how organizations must manage change to existing software systems, which represent huge investments. The majority of large software budgets are spent evolving, rather than developing new, systems. The chapter outlines the software evolution process and different approaches to evolving systems, including addressing urgent changes. It also discusses challenges with legacy systems and their management.
This document discusses software processes and process models. It covers topics such as the waterfall model, incremental development, integration and configuration, process activities including specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It also discusses coping with change through techniques like prototyping and incremental delivery. The key aspects of software process models, activities, and improvement are summarized.
The document discusses different types of software testing:
- Development testing includes unit, component, and system testing to discover bugs during development. Unit testing involves testing individual program units in isolation.
- Release testing is done by a separate team to test a complete version before public release.
- User testing involves potential users testing the system in their own environment.
The goals of testing are to demonstrate that software meets requirements and to discover incorrect or undesirable behavior to find defects. Different testing types include validation testing to check correct functionality and defect testing to uncover bugs. Both inspections and testing are important and complementary methods in software verification.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch 4Mohammed Romi
The document discusses requirements engineering and summarizes key topics covered in Chapter 4, including:
- The importance of specifying both functional and non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements place constraints on system functions and development process.
- The software requirements specification document defines what the system must do and includes both user and system requirements. It should not describe how the system will be implemented.
- Requirements engineering involves eliciting, analyzing, validating and managing requirements throughout the development lifecycle. Precise, complete and consistent requirements are important for development.
This chapter discusses distributed software engineering and distributed systems. It covers topics like distributed system characteristics including resource sharing, openness, concurrency, scalability and fault tolerance. Some key issues with distributed systems are their complexity, lack of single control, and independence of parts. The chapter addresses design issues for distributed systems such as transparency, openness, scalability, security, quality of service, and failure management. It also covers models of interaction, middleware, and client-server computing.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 15 on resilience engineering. It discusses resilience as the ability of systems to maintain critical services during disruptions like failures or cyberattacks. Resilience involves recognizing issues, resisting failures when possible, and recovering quickly through activities like redundancy. The document also covers sociotechnical resilience, where human and organizational factors are considered, and characteristics of resilient organizations like responsiveness, monitoring, anticipation, and learning.
This document provides an overview of key topics from Chapter 11 on security and dependability, including:
- The principal dependability properties of availability, reliability, safety, and security.
- Dependability covers attributes like maintainability, repairability, survivability, and error tolerance.
- Dependability is important because system failures can have widespread effects and undependable systems may be rejected.
- Dependability is achieved through techniques like fault avoidance, detection and removal, and building in fault tolerance.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch2Mohammed Romi
This document summarizes key aspects of software processes and models. It discusses the basic activities involved in software development like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It describes process models like waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented processes. The waterfall model involves sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Validation includes testing stages from unit to system level. The document also covers designing for change and evolution.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering topics including:
1. What software engineering is, its importance, and the software development lifecycle activities it encompasses.
2. The many different types of software systems that exist and how software engineering approaches vary depending on the application.
3. Key fundamentals of software engineering that apply universally, including managing development processes, dependability, and reusing existing software components.
The document discusses chapter 7 of a software engineering textbook which covers design and implementation. It begins by outlining the topics to be covered, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, and implementation issues. It then discusses the software design and implementation process, considerations around building versus buying systems, and approaches to object-oriented design using UML.
This document discusses system modeling and different types of models used in system modeling. It covers context models, interaction models, structural models, behavioral models, and model-driven engineering. Some key points include:
- System modeling involves developing abstract models of a system from different perspectives or views. Models are often developed using the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
- Common model types include use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, state diagrams, and activity diagrams.
- Structural models show the organization and structure of a system. Behavioral models show the system's dynamic behavior and responses to events.
- Model-driven engineering is an approach where models rather than code are the primary outputs and code is generated
This document summarizes key points from a lecture on aspect-oriented software development:
1. Aspect-oriented development supports separating concerns by representing cross-cutting concerns as aspects. This allows individual concerns to be understood, reused, and modified without changing other parts of the program.
2. Viewpoint-oriented requirements engineering focuses on stakeholder concerns and identifies cross-cutting concerns that affect all viewpoints.
3. Designing aspect-oriented systems involves identifying core functionality, aspects, and where aspects should be composed with the core. Testing aspect-oriented programs poses challenges around program inspection and deriving tests.
This document provides an overview of topics in chapter 13 on security engineering. It discusses security and dependability, security dimensions of confidentiality, integrity and availability. It also outlines different security levels including infrastructure, application and operational security. Key aspects of security engineering are discussed such as secure system design, security testing and assurance. Security terminology and examples are provided. The relationship between security and dependability factors like reliability, availability, safety and resilience is examined. The document also covers security in organizations and the role of security policies.
Software connectors are architectural elements that model interactions between components. They define rules governing interactions and provide channels for transferring control and data. In software systems, connectors are often not explicitly implemented but distributed across code, while in architectures they are first-class entities with identities. Treating connectors independently from components supports separation of interaction from computation and facilitates software evolution.
An example of Future composition in a real appPhil Calçado
The document discusses using concurrency and parallelism in a Rails application to improve performance. It provides an example of making 50 concurrent requests that take 10-40 milliseconds each, with the total response time being 152 milliseconds, showing a performance improvement over sequential requests. It raises the challenge of how to detect opportunities to take advantage of concurrency that may not be obvious.
This paper discusses the Aeosop system components and connectors briefly then, it discusses the architectural connectors of Apache ActiveMQ, graphs are used to support the readability and modularity of the document.
The document discusses stream connectors in software systems. A stream connector provides communication services to transfer large amounts of data between autonomous processes. Examples of stream connectors include Unix pipes, TCP/UDP sockets, and proprietary client-server protocols. The example code provided shows how to connect to a game server using sockets and streams to send a JOIN message. Streams can vary based on factors like communication cardinality, data format, synchronicity, locality, identity, state, throughput, buffering, bounds, and delivery effort.
The document discusses software connectors, which are architectural elements that model interactions between components. Connectors provide interaction ducts to transfer control and data between components. While connectors may be distributed across code modules in implementations, they are first-class entities in software architectures with their own specifications and abstractions. Treating connectors as independent elements separates computation from interaction and provides benefits such as flexibility, evolution, and analysis of systems. The document outlines different roles and types of connectors.
Details about the software connector type; Adaptor which convert data and control among software components. (Presentation was a group work of 5 undergraduates from CSE - UOM)
This document provides an overview of component-based software engineering (CBSE). It discusses key CBSE concepts like components, component models, CBSE processes, and component composition. Components are independent, reusable software entities with well-defined interfaces. A component model defines standards for component implementation and interoperability. CBSE processes include developing components for reuse, and developing software using existing reusable components. Middleware provides platform services to allow component communication.
Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is an approach that relies on reusable software components. It emerged due to limitations of object-oriented development in supporting effective reuse. CBSE uses independent and interchangeable components that communicate through well-defined interfaces. Middleware provides support for component interoperability. CBSE processes involve both developing components for reuse and developing systems using existing reusable components.
Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is an approach that develops applications by composing independent and reusable software components. Key aspects of CBSE include: defining component interfaces and standards, using middleware to enable component interoperability, and following a development process focused on reuse. CBSE aims to improve software quality through principles like independence, well-defined interfaces and reduced development costs. Challenges include ensuring component trustworthiness, certification and predicting emergent properties of compositions.
The document discusses various topics related to software reuse, including application frameworks, software product lines, and application system reuse. It describes application frameworks as reusable architectures made up of abstract and concrete classes that are extended to create applications. Software product lines are families of applications with a common architecture that can be configured for different contexts. Application system reuse involves adapting generic application systems through configuration for specific customers. The document outlines several benefits and challenges to software reuse approaches.
The document discusses software reuse and chapter 16 of an unknown textbook. It covers several topics related to software reuse including application frameworks, software product lines, and COTS product reuse. Application frameworks provide a collection of abstract and concrete classes that can be extended and customized to create specific applications. Frameworks aim to increase reuse by providing a standardized architecture and interfaces that applications can build upon rather than developing everything from scratch. They must be extended by adding new classes and methods to create a complete application or subsystem.
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This document discusses software reuse, including approaches like application frameworks, software product lines, and COTS product reuse. It describes benefits of reuse like increased dependability and accelerated development, as well as challenges like increased maintenance costs and difficulty finding reusable components. Software product lines are defined as applications with generic functionality that can be configured for specific contexts, while COTS products are reusable commercial software systems adapted through configuration.
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The document discusses various techniques for software reuse, including component-based development, application families, and design patterns. It describes the benefits of reuse such as increased reliability and reduced costs. Different types of reusable components are explained, from whole application systems to individual functions. Requirements for effective reuse include components being reliable, documented, and easily found and adapted.
This document discusses various approaches to software reuse, including design patterns, application frameworks, component-based development, and generative programming. Design patterns describe abstract solutions to common problems in a reusable form. Application frameworks provide reusable abstract and concrete classes that can be adapted and extended to create application systems. Conceptual reuse through design patterns and generative programming allows reuse of ideas rather than just code.
The document discusses various approaches to software reuse, including design patterns, program generators, application frameworks, and application system reuse through component-based development, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) integration, and software product lines. Design patterns describe reusable solutions to common problems, while program generators embed reusable concepts. Application frameworks provide reusable sub-system designs. COTS integration and software product lines allow entire applications to be reused through configuration or customization. The benefits of reuse include increased dependability, reduced costs and time, while challenges include maintenance overhead and cultural resistance.
This document discusses different approaches to software reuse, including design patterns, application frameworks, component reuse, and generator-based reuse. It covers the benefits of reuse, such as increased dependability and accelerated development, as well as potential problems like increased maintenance costs and the "not invented here" syndrome. Design patterns and generator-based reuse are highlighted as approaches that allow for concept reuse through reusable abstractions rather than just code or component reuse. The Observer design pattern is presented as a specific example.
Presentation on component based software engineering(cbse)Chandan Thakur
The document presents an overview of component based software engineering. It discusses what a component is, the fundamental principles of CBSE, the CBSE development lifecycle, and metrics used in CBSE. Benefits include reduced complexity and development time while difficulties include quality of components and satisfying requirements. CBSE uses pre-built components while traditional SE builds from scratch. Current component technologies discussed are CORBA, COM, EJB, and IDL. Applications of CBSE are in many domains.
The document discusses component-based software engineering (CBSE). It defines key CBSE concepts like components, component models, and the CBSE development process. It also covers issues in component composition like interface incompatibility and the need for adaptors. The document emphasizes that CBSE supports reuse but composition requires resolving requirements and interface mismatches between components.
This document discusses software reuse and the benefits and challenges of different approaches. It begins by defining software reuse and explaining its benefits like increased dependability and accelerated development. It describes different levels of reuse from whole applications to objects and functions. Challenges are also outlined such as increased maintenance costs. Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product reuse is specifically examined, noting how products can be configured but also issues in requirements adaptation and vendor control.
Software reuse can take many forms from simple code reuse to complete application reuse. There are various levels of reuse including components, frameworks, libraries, services, patterns and full applications. The optimal approach depends on the available software, skills, and needs of the organization, with factors like schedule, lifetime, team, criticality and domain determining the best fit. Software reuse provides a cost-effective way to develop software.
The document is a term paper on efficient performance models in component-based software engineering. It discusses component-based software engineering as a development model that allows developers to rapidly assemble systems from pre-existing commercial off-the-shelf components. It describes what components are, component models, advantages and disadvantages of the approach, and concludes that component-based engineering provides an easy way to develop software but relies on well-defined component standards.
This document discusses software reuse and component-based development. It defines software reuse as creating software from existing software components rather than building from scratch. Component-based development allows large, abstract enterprise components to be reused to reduce development time. There are different types of software reuse and several benefits including increased reliability, reduced risks, and accelerated development. Component retrieval is discussed as an important part of software reuse, but it remains a difficult problem to find efficient solutions. Overall, the document presents an overview of software reuse and component-based development while noting that more work is still needed to improve component retrieval methods.
This chapter discusses approaches for designing software systems with reuse. It covers component-based development, where software is built from reusable components. Application families are introduced as a way to achieve reuse by developing a common core that is customized for different applications. Design patterns are discussed as reusable abstractions that promote reuse through solutions to common design problems. The chapter also addresses the benefits of reuse, different types of reusable artifacts, processes for component and framework reuse, and challenges involved in software reuse.
In the realm of web development, React has emerged as one of the most popular JavaScript libraries for building user interfaces. At the heart of React lies its powerful concept of components, which allows developers to create reusable and modular UI elements. In this blog post, we will explore the world of React components, diving deep into their structure, lifecycle, state management, and best practices. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this comprehensive guide will equip you with the knowledge and skills to harness the full potential of React components.
This document discusses software reuse and its benefits and challenges. It describes different levels of reuse from whole application systems and components to objects and functions. Reusing software can increase dependability, reduce costs and risks, allow specialists to develop reusable assets, and accelerate development. However, reuse also poses challenges such as increased maintenance costs, lack of tool support, and difficulties finding, understanding and adapting reusable components.
Requirements validation certifies that the requirements document accurately describes the system to be built. It checks for completeness, consistency, standards compliance, and technical errors. Validation analyzes the final requirements document, while analysis works with initial requirements. Validation inputs include the requirements document and organizational standards. Outputs are a problem list and agreed actions. Requirements reviews involve analyzing the document for problems, discussing issues, and agreeing on solutions. Validation techniques include reviews, prototyping, modeling, and testing.
This document discusses requirements elicitation and analysis. It describes the components and stages of elicitation including understanding the problem domain, stakeholders' needs, and collecting requirements. Analysis techniques are discussed like necessity, consistency, and feasibility checking. Requirements elicitation involves iterative negotiation when conflicts arise. Various techniques are presented like interviews, scenarios, prototyping and observation to understand requirements.
Requirements engineering (RE) involves a set of activities that transform inputs like stakeholder needs into outputs like requirements documents. RE processes vary between organizations and involve eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and validating requirements. Process models describe RE at different levels of detail. RE is influenced by human factors and involves stakeholders from various backgrounds. Process improvement aims to address problems through incremental introduction of good practices, with the goal of increasing process maturity.
The document provides an introduction to requirements engineering and system requirements. It discusses the importance of requirements engineering in the broader systems engineering process. Requirements engineering involves developing requirements documents that define what a system must do and its constraints. Key challenges include ensuring requirements accurately reflect customer needs and avoiding inconsistencies or misunderstandings.
Requirements management involves collecting, storing, and maintaining requirements and related information. It aims to manage changes to requirements and dependencies between requirements. Traceability links requirements to their sources and related designs/documents. Change management defines processes for handling change requests, analyzing impacts, and implementing changes. Traceability and change management policies help control costs by defining what information to collect and maintain.
This document provides an overview of embedded systems and real-time systems. It discusses topics such as embedded system design, architectural patterns, timing analysis, real-time operating systems, and reactive systems. Key aspects of embedded systems include their need to respond to external events in real-time, their use of cooperating processes controlled by a real-time executive, and constraints related to hardware interaction, safety, and reliability.
This document discusses project management and managing people on software projects. It covers topics like risk management, motivating team members, and dealing with different personality types. It provides an example of an individual motivation issue where a team member has lost interest in the project work and is no longer developing the skills they want. The project manager talks to the team member to understand the problem and find a way to re-engage them by addressing their skill development needs.
This document summarizes Chapter 12 of a textbook on dependability and security specification. It discusses risk-driven specification, including identifying risks, analyzing risks, and defining requirements to reduce risks. It also covers specifying safety requirements by identifying hazards, assessing hazards, and analyzing hazards to discover root causes. The goal is to specify requirements that ensure systems function dependably and securely without failures causing harm.
Static analysis, reliability testing, and security testing are techniques for validating critical systems. Additional validation processes are required for critical systems due to the high costs and consequences of failure. Validation costs for critical systems are significantly higher than for non-critical systems, typically taking up more than 50% of total development costs. The outcome of the validation process is evidence that demonstrates the system's level of dependability.
This document summarizes key topics from a lecture on security engineering:
1. It discusses security engineering and management, risk assessment, and designing systems for security. Application security focuses on design while infrastructure security is a management problem.
2. It outlines guidelines for secure system design including basing decisions on security policies, avoiding single points of failure, balancing security and usability, validating all inputs, and designing for deployment and recoverability.
3. It also covers risk management, assessing threats, and designing architectures with layered protection and distributed assets to minimize the effects of attacks.
The document discusses techniques for achieving dependable software systems. It covers redundancy and diversity approaches including N-version programming where multiple versions of software are developed independently. Dependable system architectures like protection systems and self-monitoring architectures that use redundancy are described. The document emphasizes that a well-defined development process is important for minimizing faults and notes validation activities should include requirements reviews, testing, and change management.
This document discusses sociotechnical systems and systems engineering. It defines sociotechnical systems as systems that include both technical systems (e.g. hardware and software) as well as operational processes and people. Sociotechnical systems have emergent properties that depend on the interactions between system components. They are also non-deterministic since human behavior introduces unpredictability. Developing sociotechnical systems requires an interdisciplinary approach involving areas like software engineering, organizational design, and human factors.
This document summarizes key aspects of project planning and estimation techniques discussed in a lecture. It covers topics like plan-driven vs agile development, project scheduling, estimation models like COCOMO II, and factors that affect estimation accuracy. Project planning involves breaking work into tasks, scheduling, and communicating the plan. Estimation can be experience-based or use algorithmic models factoring in attributes like size, team experience, and complexity.
This document provides an overview of quality management in software engineering. It discusses software quality, standards, reviews and inspections, as well as software measurement and metrics. The key points covered include establishing an organizational framework for quality management, applying specific quality processes and standards at the project level, and conducting independent reviews to ensure compliance. Software metrics can help quantify attributes and identify anomalous components, but meaningful relationships between internal metrics and external quality attributes can be difficult to establish.
Configuration management involves change management, version management, system building, and release management. It ensures changes to software systems are managed and tracked. Version management tracks different versions of components to prevent interference. System building compiles components into executable systems. Release management prepares software for distribution and tracks released versions.
This document summarizes key aspects of process improvement discussed in two lectures. It discusses the process improvement process, including process measurement, analysis, and change. It describes approaches like the CMMI framework and how it is used to assess process maturity levels. It outlines the stages of process change and challenges like resistance to change.
Software evolution involves making ongoing changes to software systems to address new requirements, fix errors, and improve performance. There are several approaches to managing software evolution, including maintenance, reengineering, refactoring, and legacy system management. Key considerations for legacy systems include assessing their business value and quality to determine whether they should be replaced, transformed, or maintained.
This document discusses software processes and models. It covers the following key points:
1. Software processes involve activities like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution to develop software systems. Common process models include waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented development.
2. Processes need to cope with inevitable changes. This can involve prototyping to avoid rework or using incremental development and delivery to more easily accommodate changes.
3. The Rational Unified Process is a modern process model with phases for inception, elaboration, construction and transition. It advocates iterative development and managing requirements and quality.
This document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile principles, extreme programming practices including test-driven development and pair programming. It also discusses scaling agile methods to larger projects using scrum, with sprints and daily stand-up meetings. Some challenges of applying agile to large, long-term projects with distributed teams are also outlined.
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Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
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LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
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In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
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An All-Around Benchmark of the DBaaS MarketScyllaDB
The entire database market is moving towards Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), resulting in a heterogeneous DBaaS landscape shaped by database vendors, cloud providers, and DBaaS brokers. This DBaaS landscape is rapidly evolving and the DBaaS products differ in their features but also their price and performance capabilities. In consequence, selecting the optimal DBaaS provider for the customer needs becomes a challenge, especially for performance-critical applications.
To enable an on-demand comparison of the DBaaS landscape we present the benchANT DBaaS Navigator, an open DBaaS comparison platform for management and deployment features, costs, and performance. The DBaaS Navigator is an open data platform that enables the comparison of over 20 DBaaS providers for the relational and NoSQL databases.
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Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
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MongoDB to ScyllaDB: Technical Comparison and the Path to SuccessScyllaDB
What can you expect when migrating from MongoDB to ScyllaDB? This session provides a jumpstart based on what we’ve learned from working with your peers across hundreds of use cases. Discover how ScyllaDB’s architecture, capabilities, and performance compares to MongoDB’s. Then, hear about your MongoDB to ScyllaDB migration options and practical strategies for success, including our top do’s and don’ts.
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
ScyllaDB Leaps Forward with Dor Laor, CEO of ScyllaDBScyllaDB
Join ScyllaDB’s CEO, Dor Laor, as he introduces the revolutionary tablet architecture that makes one of the fastest databases fully elastic. Dor will also detail the significant advancements in ScyllaDB Cloud’s security and elasticity features as well as the speed boost that ScyllaDB Enterprise 2024.1 received.
Automation Student Developers Session 3: Introduction to UI AutomationUiPathCommunity
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An Introduction to All Data Enterprise IntegrationSafe Software
Are you spending more time wrestling with your data than actually using it? You’re not alone. For many organizations, managing data from various sources can feel like an uphill battle. But what if you could turn that around and make your data work for you effortlessly? That’s where FME comes in.
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TrustArc Webinar - Your Guide for Smooth Cross-Border Data Transfers and Glob...TrustArc
Global data transfers can be tricky due to different regulations and individual protections in each country. Sharing data with vendors has become such a normal part of business operations that some may not even realize they’re conducting a cross-border data transfer!
The Global CBPR Forum launched the new Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules framework in May 2024 to ensure that privacy compliance and regulatory differences across participating jurisdictions do not block a business's ability to deliver its products and services worldwide.
To benefit consumers and businesses, Global CBPRs promote trust and accountability while moving toward a future where consumer privacy is honored and data can be transferred responsibly across borders.
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MongoDB vs ScyllaDB: Tractian’s Experience with Real-Time MLScyllaDB
Tractian, an AI-driven industrial monitoring company, recently discovered that their real-time ML environment needed to handle a tenfold increase in data throughput. In this session, JP Voltani (Head of Engineering at Tractian), details why and how they moved to ScyllaDB to scale their data pipeline for this challenge. JP compares ScyllaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, evaluating their data models, query languages, sharding and replication, and benchmark results. Attendees will gain practical insights into the MongoDB to ScyllaDB migration process, including challenges, lessons learned, and the impact on product performance.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
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3. Component-based development Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is an approach to software development that relies on the reuse of entities called ‘software components’. It emerged from the failure of object-oriented development to support effective reuse. Single object classes are too detailed and specific. Components are more abstract than object classes and can be considered to be stand-alone service providers. They can exist as stand-alone entities. 3 Chapter 17 Software reuse
4. CBSE essentials Independent components specified by their interfaces. Component standards to facilitate component integration. Middleware that provides support for component inter-operability. A development process that is geared to reuse. 4 Chapter 17 Software reuse
5. CBSE and design principles Apart from the benefits of reuse, CBSE is based on sound software engineering design principles: Components are independent so do not interfere with each other; Component implementations are hidden; Communication is through well-defined interfaces; Component platforms are shared and reduce development costs. 5 Chapter 17 Software reuse
6. Component standards Standards need to be established so that components can communicate with each other and inter-operate. Unfortunately, several competing component standards were established: Sun’s Enterprise Java Beans Microsoft’s COM and .NET CORBA’s CCM In practice, these multiple standards have hindered the uptake of CBSE. It is impossible for components developed using different approaches to work together. 6 Chapter 17 Software reuse
7. CBSE problems Component trustworthiness - how can a component with no available source code be trusted? Component certification - who will certify the quality of components? Emergent property prediction - how can the emergent properties of component compositions be predicted? Requirements trade-offs - how do we do trade-off analysis between the features of one component and another? 7 Chapter 17 Software reuse
8. Components Components provide a service without regard to where the component is executing or its programming language A component is an independent executable entity that can be made up of one or more executable objects; The component interface is published and all interactions are through the published interface; 8 Chapter 17 Software reuse
9. Component definitions Councill and Heinmann: A software component is a software element that conforms to a component model and can be independently deployed and composed without modification according to a composition standard. Szyperski: A software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only. A software component can be deployed independently and is subject to composition by third-parties. 9 Chapter 17 Software reuse
12. Component as a service provider The component is an independent, executable entity. It does not have to be compiled before it is used with other components. The services offered by a component are made available through an interface and all component interactions take place through that interface. The component interface is expressed in terms of parameterized operations and its internal state is never exposed. 12 Chapter 17 Software reuse
13. Component interfaces Provides interface Defines the services that are provided by the component to other components. This interface, essentially, is the component API. It defines the methods that can be called by a user of the component. Requires interface Defines the services that specifies what services must be made available for the component to execute as specified. This does not compromise the independence or deployability of a component because the ‘requires’ interface does not define how these services should be provided. 13 Chapter 17 Software reuse
14. Component interfaces Note UML notation. Ball and sockets can fit together. 14 Chapter 17 Software reuse
15. Amodel of a data collector component 15 Chapter 17 Software reuse
16. Component models A component model is a definition of standards for component implementation, documentation and deployment. Examples of component models EJB model (Enterprise Java Beans) COM+ model (.NET model) Corba Component Model The component model specifies how interfaces should be defined and the elements that should be included in an interface definition. 16 Chapter 17 Software reuse
18. Elements of a component model Interfaces Components are defined by specifying their interfaces. The component model specifies how the interfaces should be defined and the elements, such as operation names, parameters and exceptions, which should be included in the interface definition. Usage In order for components to be distributed and accessed remotely, they need to have a unique name or handle associated with them. This has to be globally unique. Deployment The component model includes a specification of how components should be packaged for deployment as independent, executable entities. 18 Chapter 17 Software reuse
19. Middleware support Component models are the basis for middleware that provides support for executing components. Component model implementations provide: Platform services that allow components written according to the model to communicate; Support services that are application-independent services used by different components. To use services provided by a model, components are deployed in a container. This is a set of interfaces used to access the service implementations. 19 Chapter 17 Software reuse
21. CBSE processes CBSE processes are software processes that support component-based software engineering. They take into account the possibilities of reuse and the different process activities involved in developing and using reusable components. Development for reuse This process is concerned with developing components or services that will be reused in other applications. It usually involves generalizing existing components. Development with reuse This process is the process of developing new applications using existing components and services. 21 Chapter 17 Software reuse
23. Supporting processes Component acquisition is the process of acquiring components for reuse or development into a reusable component. It may involve accessing locally- developed components or services or finding these components from an external source. Component management is concerned with managing a company’s reusable components, ensuring that they are properly catalogued, stored and made available for reuse. Component certification is the process of checking a component and certifying that it meets its specification. Chapter 17 Software reuse 23
24. Key points CBSE is a reuse-based approach to defining and implementing loosely coupled components into systems. A component is a software unit whose functionality and dependencies are completely defined by its interfaces. A component model defines a set of standards that component providers and composers should follow. The key CBSE processes are CBSE for reuse and CBSE with reuse. 24 Chapter 17 Software reuse
26. CBSE for reuse CBSE for reuse focuses on component development. Components developed for a specific application usually have to be generalised to make them reusable. A component is most likely to be reusable if it associated with a stable domain abstraction (business object). For example, in a hospital stable domain abstractions are associated with the fundamental purpose - nurses, patients, treatments, etc. 26 Chapter 17 Software reuse
27. Component development for reuse Components for reuse may be specially constructed by generalising existing components. Component reusability Should reflect stable domain abstractions; Should hide state representation; Should be as independent as possible; Should publish exceptions through the component interface. There is a trade-off between reusability and usability The more general the interface, the greater the reusability but it is then more complex and hence less usable. 27 Chapter 17 Software reuse
28. Changes for reusability Remove application-specific methods. Change names to make them general. Add methods to broaden coverage. Make exception handling consistent. Add a configuration interface for component adaptation. Integrate required components to reduce dependencies. 28 Chapter 17 Software reuse
29. Exception handling Components should not handle exceptions themselves, because each application will have its own requirements for exception handling. Rather, the component should define what exceptions can arise and should publish these as part of the interface. In practice, however, there are two problems with this: Publishing all exceptions leads to bloated interfaces that are harder to understand. This may put off potential users of the component. The operation of the component may depend on local exception handling, and changing this may have serious implications for the functionality of the component. Chapter 17 Software reuse 29
30. Legacy system components Existing legacy systems that fulfil a useful business function can be re-packaged as components for reuse. This involves writing a wrapper component that implements provides and requires interfaces then accesses the legacy system. Although costly, this can be much less expensive than rewriting the legacy system. 30 Chapter 17 Software reuse
31. Reusable components The development cost of reusable components may be higher than the cost of specific equivalents. This extra reusability enhancement cost should be an organization rather than a project cost. Generic components may be less space-efficient and may have longer execution times than their specific equivalents. 31 Chapter 17 Software reuse
32. Component management Component management involves deciding how to classify the component so that it can be discovered, making the component available either in a repository or as a service, maintaining information about the use of the component and keeping track of different component versions. A company with a reuse program may carry out some form of component certification before the component is made available for reuse. Certification means that someone apart from the developer checks the quality of the component. Chapter 17 Software reuse 32
33. CBSE with reuse CBSE with reuse process has to find and integrate reusable components. When reusing components, it is essential to make trade-offs between ideal requirements and the services actually provided by available components. This involves: Developing outline requirements; Searching for components then modifying requirements according to available functionality. Searching again to find if there are better components that meet the revised requirements. Composing components to create the system. 33 Chapter 17 Software reuse
36. Component identification issues Trust. You need to be able to trust the supplier of a component. At best, an untrusted component may not operate as advertised; at worst, it can breach your security. Requirements. Different groups of components will satisfy different requirements. Validation. The component specification may not be detailed enough to allow comprehensive tests to be developed. Components may have unwanted functionality. How can you test this will not interfere with your application? 36 Chapter 17 Software reuse
37. Component validation Component validation involves developing a set of test cases for a component (or, possibly, extending test cases supplied with that component) and developing a test harness to run component tests. The major problem with component validation is that the component specification may not be sufficiently detailed to allow you to develop a complete set of component tests. As well as testing that a component for reuse does what you require, you may also have to check that the component does not include any malicious code or functionality that you don’t need. Chapter 17 Software reuse 37
38. Ariane launcher failure – validation failure? In 1996, the 1st test flight of the Ariane 5 rocket ended in disaster when the launcher went out of control 37 seconds after take off. The problem was due to a reused component from a previous version of the launcher (the Inertial Navigation System) that failed because assumptions made when that component was developed did not hold for Ariane 5. The functionality that failed in this component was not required in Ariane 5. 38 Chapter 17 Software reuse
39. Component composition The process of assembling components to create a system. Composition involves integrating components with each other and with the component infrastructure. Normally you have to write ‘glue code’ to integrate components. 39 Chapter 17 Software reuse
40. Types of composition Sequential composition where the composed components are executed in sequence. This involves composing the provides interfaces of each component. Hierarchical composition where one component calls on the services of another. The provides interface of one component is composed with the requires interface of another. Additive composition where the interfaces of two components are put together to create a new component. Provides and requires interfaces of integrated component is a combination of interfaces of constituent components. 40 Chapter 17 Software reuse
42. Interface incompatibility Parameter incompatibility where operations have the same name but are of different types. Operation incompatibility where the names of operations in the composed interfaces are different. Operation incompleteness where the provides interface of one component is a subset of the requires interface of another. 42 Chapter 17 Software reuse
44. Adaptor components Address the problem of component incompatibility by reconciling the interfaces of the components that are composed. Different types of adaptor are required depending on the type of composition. An addressFinder and a mapper component may be composed through an adaptor that strips the postal code from an address and passes this to the mapper component. 44 Chapter 17 Software reuse
45. Composition through an adaptor The component postCodeStripper is the adaptor that facilitates the sequential composition of addressFinder and mapper components. 45 Chapter 17 Software reuse
46. An adaptorlinking a data collector and a sensor 46 Chapter 17 Software reuse
48. Interface semantics You have to rely on component documentation to decide if interfaces that are syntactically compatible are actually compatible. Consider an interface for a PhotoLibrary component: 48 Chapter 17 Software reuse
49. Photo Library documentation “This method adds a photograph to the library and associates the photograph identifier and catalogue descriptor with the photograph.” “what happens if the photograph identifier is already associated with a photograph in the library?” “is the photograph descriptor associated with the catalogue entry as well as the photograph i.e. if I delete the photograph, do I also delete the catalogue information?” 49 Chapter 17 Software reuse
50. The Object Constraint Language The Object Constraint Language (OCL) has been designed to define constraints that are associated with UML models. It is based around the notion of pre and post condition specification – common to many formal methods. 50 Chapter 17 Software reuse
51. The OCLdescription of the Photo Library interface -- The context keyword names the component to which the conditions apply contextaddItem -- The preconditions specify what must be true before execution of addItem pre: PhotoLibrary.libSize() > 0 PhotoLibrary.retrieve(pid) = null -- The postconditions specify what is true after execution post:libSize () = libSize()@pre + 1 PhotoLibrary.retrieve(pid) = p PhotoLibrary.catEntry(pid) = photodesc context delete pre: PhotoLibrary.retrieve(pid) <> null ; post: PhotoLibrary.retrieve(pid) = null PhotoLibrary.catEntry(pid) = PhotoLibrary.catEntry(pid)@pre PhotoLibrary.libSize() = libSize()@pre—1 51 Chapter 17 Software reuse
52. Photo library conditions As specified, the OCL associated with the Photo Library component states that: There must not be a photograph in the library with the same identifier as the photograph to be entered; The library must exist - assume that creating a library adds a single item to it; Each new entry increases the size of the library by 1; If you retrieve using the same identifier then you get back the photo that you added; If you look up the catalogue using that identifier, then you get back the catalogue entry that you made. 52 Chapter 17 Software reuse
53. Composition trade-offs When composing components, you may find conflicts between functional and non-functional requirements, and conflicts between the need for rapid delivery and system evolution. You need to make decisions such as: What composition of components is effective for delivering the functional requirements? What composition of components allows for future change? What will be the emergent properties of the composed system? 53 Chapter 17 Software reuse
54. Data collection and report generation components 54 Chapter 17 Software reuse
55. Key points During the CBSE process, the processes of requirements engineering and system design are interleaved. Component composition is the process of ‘wiring’ components together to create a system. When composing reusable components, you normally have to write adaptors to reconcile different component interfaces. When choosing compositions, you have to consider required functionality, non-functional requirements and system evolution. 55 Chapter 17 Software reuse
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