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Driving the selection of cots components on the basis of system requirements

Authors:

Vittorio Cortellessa,

Ivica Crnkovic,

Fabrizio Marinelli,

Pasqualina PotenaAuthors Info & Claims

ASE '07: Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Pages 413 - 416

https://doi.org/10.1145/1321631.1321697

Published: 05 November 2007 Publication History

Abstract

In a component-based development process the selection of components is an activity that takes place over multiple lifecycle phases that span from requirement specifications through design to implementation-integration. Automated tool support for component selection would be very helpful in each phase. In this paper we introduce a framework that supports the selection of COTS components in the requirements phase. The framework lays on a tool that builds and solves an optimization model, whose solution provides the optimal COTS component selection. The selection criterion is based on cost minimization of the whole system while assuring a certain degree of satisfaction of the system requirements. The output of the model solution indicates the optimal combination of single COTS components and assemblies of COTS that satisfy the requirements while minimizing costs

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ASE '07: Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

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ISBN:9781595938824

DOI:10.1145/1321631

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