Title :
Methods and tools for component based development
Author :
Barn, Balbir ; Brown, Alan W.
Author_Institution :
Application Dev. Div., Sterling Software, Sunbury-on-Thames
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;
Conference_Titel :
Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, 1998. TOOLS 26. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Santa Barbara, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8482-8
DOI :
10.1109/TOOLS.1998.711029
