Towards an Embedded Software Component Quality Verification Framework

Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) is being used in a wide variety of application areas, including embedded systems, and the correct operation of the components is often critical for business success and, in some cases, human safety. In this way, assessment and evaluation of software components has become a compulsory and crucial part of any CBSE lifecycle. A risk of selecting a product with unknown quality properties is no longer acceptable and, when happened, may cause catastrophic results. Thus, the software components quality evaluation has become an increasingly essential activity in order to bring reliability in (re)using software components. In this way, we propose a quality verification framework to evaluate the quality of embedded software components in an efficient way. This model is based in component characteristics, sub-characteristics, quality attributes and metrics.