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A Metrics-Guided Framework for Cost and Quality Management of Component-Based Software

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The growing reliance on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components for large-scale projects has introduced a new paradigm in software engineering, requiring the design of new software development methods and business processes. Large-scale component reuse leads to savings in development resources, but increases the system’s vulnerability to risks arising from third-party development, as well as integration difficulties, performance constraints, and incompatibility of components from multiple vendors. The framework discussed in this chapter aims to alleviate quality concerns for COTS-based systems by using software metrics to accurately quantify factors contributing to the overall quality of a component-based system, guiding quality and risk management by identifying and eliminating sources of risk. Tradeoffs between cost and quality in a component-based system are discussed, as well as analytical techniques and formal models for cost and quality decisions.

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    Sahra Sedigh-Ali & Arif Ghafoor

  2. Department of Defense, OASD/C3I, Pentagon, Washington DC, 20543, USA

    Raymond A. Paul

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  2. Dep. of Information Technologies & Systems - Escuela Superior de Informática, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Alarcos Research Group- Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, Ciudad Real, Spain

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Sedigh-Ali, S., Ghafoor, A., Paul, R.A. (2003). A Metrics-Guided Framework for Cost and Quality Management of Component-Based Software. In: Cechich, A., Piattini, M., Vallecillo, A. (eds) Component-Based Software Quality. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45064-1_17

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