Volume 13 : Number 1 : Paper 6
April 2010 Special Issue of Best Papers presented at 2nd International Workshop on Advances Software Engineering (IWASE'2009)
Title:
Empirical Validation of Component-based Software Systems Generation and Evaluation Approaches

Authors and Affiliations:
Carlos Becerra,
Victor Sagredo, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
Gonzalo Valdes, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

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 effort. Results suggest that: (1) Azimut generate better quality solutions at lower cost, but not statistically significant, and (2) there is strong evidence showing that the effort 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.


Received 2010-03-10, Revised 2010-04-20 , Editor: Hernan Astudillo, Cecilia Bastarrica
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