The support tool for highly reliable component-based software development

Author

Matsumoto, Michihiro ; Futatsugi, Kokichi

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci., Japan Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Ishikawa, Japan

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

172

Lastpage

179

Abstract

We discuss a support tool for highly reliable component-based software development. The tool assures the high reliability of the output by verifying refinement and by generating connectors. The advantages of the tool are automated refinement verification and automated connector generation. As a software architecture for component-based software, we select the tree architecture, in which components are represented by a projection-style behavioral specification. The input of the tool is: (a) a requirement specification of the target software, (b) a refined specification specifying how to combine the components, and (c) the components themselves. (a) and (b) are projection-style behavioral specifications, while (c) are JavaBeans. The output of the tool is JavaBeans that are obtained by combining (c) and the generated connectors

Keywords

Java; development systems; distributed object management; formal specification; formal verification; software architecture; software reliability; software tools; subroutines; JavaBeans; automated connector generation; automated refinement verification; component combination; component-based software architecture; output reliability; projection-style behavioral specification; refined specification; reliable component-based software development support tool; requirements specification; tree architecture; Computer architecture; Connectors; Costs; Information science; Java; Productivity; Programming; Software architecture; Software libraries; Software reusability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 2000. APSEC 2000. Proceedings. Seventh Asia-Pacific

ISSN

1530-1362

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0915-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSEC.2000.896696

Filename

896696