IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijiscm/v7y2014i2p95-114.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A quality-driven framework for the selection of software components and their composition

Author

Listed:
  • Sofiane Batata
  • Mohamed Amine Mostefai
  • Mohamed Ahmed-Nacer

Abstract

In the component-based software development process, the main concern of the selection activity is not only to find the component that meets the functional requirements, but finding the best one, or the best combination of components that meet these requirements by minimising costs and time to market, and producing high quality software. In this paper, we present a three-phase framework to assist developers in the selection activity. The framework allows users to specify their functional requirements in natural language and to introduce the architectural specifications as well as the quality requirements of the expected components or their composition. The framework uses a faceted characterisation model which allows exploiting both the documentation provided with components, their architectural properties, and their quality characteristics. The selection is performed using information retrieval techniques to measure the functional capacity of components, and uses a suite of metrics to evaluate components and their compositions according to their architectural properties. Finally, their quality is assessed by exploiting the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method for multi-criteria decision-making.

Suggested Citation

  • Sofiane Batata & Mohamed Amine Mostefai & Mohamed Ahmed-Nacer, 2014. "A quality-driven framework for the selection of software components and their composition," International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(2), pages 95-114.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijiscm:v:7:y:2014:i:2:p:95-114
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=69385
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijiscm:v:7:y:2014:i:2:p:95-114. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=79 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.