Methods and tools for component based development

Author

Barn, Balbir ; Brown, Alan W.

Author_Institution

Application Dev. Div., Sterling Software, Sunbury-on-Thames

fYear

1998

fDate

3-7 Aug 1998

Firstpage

385

Lastpage

395

Abstract

Software reuse is an important goal for every organization developing or using software. Recently, there has been progress on new ways to develop software popularly known as component based development (CBD). CBD is an approach to application development in which ready-made pieces of software are assembled together to enable the rapid construction of applications. The paper examines the role of appropriate new method´s and tools in encouraging the wider practice of CBD. A new generation of methods and tools in CBD being developed by Sterling Software is described. As a counterpoint, the support for CBD in a leading UML class-based OOA/D tool is also compared and contrasted

Keywords

object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming; software reusability; software tools; Sterling Software; UML class-based tool; application development; component based development methods; component based development tools; object-oriented analysis; object-oriented methods; rapid application construction; ready-made software components; software reuse; Application software; Assembly; Software tools; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, 1998. TOOLS 26. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Santa Barbara, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8482-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TOOLS.1998.711029

Filename

711029