Strengthening Component Architectures by Modeling Fine-grained Entities

0369565 - ÚI 2012 US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Bureš, Tomáš - Ježek, P. - Malohlava, M. - Poch, T. - Šerý, O.
Strengthening Component Architectures by Modeling Fine-grained Entities.
EUROMICRO 2011. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society, 2011 - (Biffl, S.; Koivuluoma, M.; Abrahamsson, P.; Oivo, M.), s. 124-128. ISBN 978-1-4577-1027-8.
[SEAA 2011. EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications /37./. Oulu (FI), 30.08.2011-02.09.2011]
Grant - others:GA AV ČR(CZ) GAP202/11/0312
Keywords : component model * architecture evolution * dynamic reconfiguration
Subject RIV: JC - Computer Hardware ; Software

Component-based software engineering (CBSE) defines components as basic software building blocks with strongly formalized behavior and interactions. The key benefits of structuring code into components include good analyzability of performance and behavioral correctness, simpler code generation, and high documentation value. However, a sufficiently detailed formalization including all relevant parts of application behavior often requires finer granularity than of a software component - a typical example is component's data exposed to other components that can circulate through the application, e.g., opened files, client sessions. In order to propagate all the mentioned benefits of CBSE to this level of granularity, we propose a conservative component model extension which allows to capture those concepts on the architecture level. Our main goal is to define a model allowing seamless integration in existing behavior specification formalisms and implementation in current component systems.
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