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An interface specification serves as the sole medium for component understanding and use. Current practice of deriving these specifications for composite components does not give much weight to doing it systematically and unambiguously. This paper presents our progress on developing an approach to tackle this issue. We focus on deriving functional interface specifications for composite components, constructed via composition operators. In our approach, the composites’ interfaces are not generated in an ad hoc manner via delegation mechanisms, but are derived systematically, consistently and largely automatically via a set of functions on the functional interfaces of the composed components. Via an example, we illustrate the aforementioned benefits as well as the fact that our approach provides a new view into the space of interface generation.
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Velasco Elizondo, P., Ndjatchi, M.K.C. (2011). Deriving Functional Interface Specifications for Composite Components. In: Apel, S., Jackson, E. (eds) Software Composition. SC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6708. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22045-6_1
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