Strong dependencies between software components
Book chapter
Abate, P., Di Cosmo, R., Boender, J. and Zacchiroli, S. 2009. Strong dependencies between software components. in: 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2009). IEEE. pp. 89 -99
Chapter title | Strong dependencies between software components |
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Authors | Abate, P., Di Cosmo, R., Boender, J. and Zacchiroli, S. |
Abstract | Component-based systems often describe context requirements in terms of explicit inter-component dependencies. Studying large instances of such systems - such as free and open source software (FOSS) distributions - in terms of declared dependencies between packages is appealing. It is however also misleading when the language to express dependencies is as expressive as Boolean formulae, which is often the case. In such settings, a more appropriate notion of component dependency exists: strong dependency. This paper introduces such notion as a first step towards modeling semantic, rather then syntactic, inter-component relationships. Furthermore, a notion of component sensitivity is derived from strong dependencies, with applications to quality assurance and to the evaluation of upgrade risks. An empirical study of strong dependencies and sensitivity is presented, in the context of one of the largest, freely available, component-based system. |
Keywords | Boolean formula, FOSS, component sensitivity, component-based software architecture, component-based system, context requirements, empirical study, free-and-open source software, quality assurance, risk evaluation, semantic modeling, software component strong-dependency, software package, software quality measures, syntactic intercomponent relationship, Boolean functions, object-oriented programming, quality assurance, risk analysis, software architecture, software metrics, software quality |
Research Group | Foundations of Computing group |
Artificial Intelligence group | |
Page range | 89 -99 |
Book title | 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2009). |
Publisher | IEEE |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9781424448425 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 06 Dec 2012 |
Output status | Published |
Additional information | Online ISBN: 9781424448418. ISSN: 1938-6451. Proceedings of a meeting held 15-16 October 2009, Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Previously published as MANCOOSI Technical Report 0002, June 2009. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/ESEM.2009.5316017 |
Language | English |
Event | Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2009. ESEM 2009. 3rd International Symposium on |
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