Evaluation of static properties for component-based architectures

Author

Fioukov, A.V. ; Eskenazi, E.M. ; Hammer, D.K. ; Chaudron, M.R.V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

39

Abstract

Early assessment of the compositional properties of component compositions is one of the hottest issues in component-based architecting. We describe a method for evaluating the static properties of an architecture, given the features of its constituents. The estimation framework is based on composition rules and the specification of the static properties of the components by means of a reflection interface. Two evaluation approaches, exhaustive and selective, provide a flexible trade-off between the estimation effort and the necessary precision. The method was successfully applied to the Koala component model for estimating the static memory consumption.

Keywords

formal specification; object-oriented programming; program diagnostics; software architecture; software performance evaluation; Koala component model; component compositions; component-based architectures; composition rules; compositional properties; exhaustive evaluation; reflection interface; selective evaluation; specification; static memory consumption estimation; static property evaluation; Application software; Computer architecture; Engineering management; Mathematics; Production; Reflection; Resource management; Runtime; Software development management; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Euromicro Conference, 2002. Proceedings. 28th

ISSN

1089-6503

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1787-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURMIC.2002.1046130

Filename

1046130