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On Component Identification Approaches – Classification, State of the Art, and Comparison

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Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2009)

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Partitioning a design space to identify components with desired non-functional and behavioral characteristics is a crucial task in the component-based software development process. Accordingly, the issue of how to analyze design models in order to systematically derive a set of components constitutes a research question which has been investigated repeatedly. Component identification approaches that have been published in literature, however, make use of different component definitions and identification strategies. Furthermore, they vary from ad-hoc findings and general recommendations to more formalized methods and techniques which aim at an optimized partitioning. In this paper, we elaborate on the state of the art in component identification and provide a classification of approaches that highlights their respective strengths and weaknesses. To classify component identification approaches, we introduce a classification scheme that contains important distinguishing factors. It is used to compare existing approaches which have been compiled during a literature survey. In addition, it provides the basis to discuss significant differences between them and to identify remaining issues which give information about future research directions.

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  1. Component and Service Engineering Group, Business Informatics and Systems Engineering Chair, University of Augsburg, Universitaetsstrasse 16, 86159, Augsburg, Germany

    Dominik Birkmeier & Sven Overhage

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  1. Software Engineering Institute, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon® http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/glewis, 4500 Fifth Ave., PA 15213, Pittsburgh, USA

    Grace A. Lewis

  2. The Predictable Assembly Laboratory, , Department of Computer Science,, King’s College London, Strand, http://palab.dcs.kcl.ac.uk, WC2R 2LS, London, UK

    Iman Poernomo

  3. Computer Science Department, East Stroudsburg University, http://www.esu.edu/~chrish, 200 Prospect Street, PA 18301-2999, East Stroudsburg, USA

    Christine Hofmeister

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Birkmeier, D., Overhage, S. (2009). On Component Identification Approaches – Classification, State of the Art, and Comparison. In: Lewis, G.A., Poernomo, I., Hofmeister, C. (eds) Component-Based Software Engineering. CBSE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5582. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02414-6_1

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