Combining third party software components to customer-individual application systems requires first, standardized specification techniques for describing the technical as well as ...
The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....
Many software systems rely on third-party components during their build process. Because the components are constantly evolving, quality assurance demands that developers perform ...
Il-Chul Yoon, Alan Sussman, Atif M. Memon, Adam A....
Software components are increasingly assembled from other components. Each component may further depend on others, and each may have multiple active versions. The total number of ...
Il-Chul Yoon, Alan Sussman, Atif M. Memon, Adam A....
Software engineers frequently update COTS components integrated in component-based systems, and can often chose among many candidates produced by different vendors. This paper tac...