Component Behavior Modeling and Relativity Analysis

Component behavior modeling and relativity analysis is a crucial issue for the component-based software maintenance and evolution. There are two prerequisites for each application of maintenance or evolution strategy. The first is modeling the behavior of the evolving component, and the second is determining the components which are behavior related with the evolving one. In this paper we provided a method to model component behavior and analyze behavior relativity between two components with a collection of algorithms. This method is helpful for both researchers and engineers to determine whether their evolution strategy is executable for the evolving software.