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Chapter 5
Component-Based Development Process
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Overview
Software Process Models
Component-based Development
Component-Based Software Lifecycle
Summary
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Purpose
This chapter:
Describes the component-based software lifecycle.
Provides an overview of generic software engineering
processes.
Motivates the need for specific processes when
developing components and when building systems or
applications from components
Describe these processes, reviewing their procedures.
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Software Process Models
Generic lifecycle activities
The Sequential Model
Evolutionary Development
Unified Process
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Generic lifecycle activities
Activities
Requirements analysis and system specification
System and software design
Implementation and unit testing
Integration, system verification and validation
Operation support and Maintenance
Disposal
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The Sequential Model
Analysis
Design
Implementation
Integration
Test
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Evolutionary Development
Develop a system gradually in many repetitive stages:
Increasing the knowledge of the system requirements
and system functionality in each stage
exposing the results to user comments.
This can be achieved by using:
The Iterative Model
The Incremental Model
The Prototyping Model
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The Iterative Model
Analysis
Design
Implementation
Integration
Test
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The Incremental Model
Increment 1 2...n
Analysis
Design
Implementation
Integration
Test
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The Prototyping Model
Test prototype
Analysis
Design
Develop
prototype
Implementation
Integration
Test
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Unified Process
Inception
The first phase in which the system is described in a
formalized way, providing a base for further
development.
Elaboration
The phase in which the system architecture is defined
and created.
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Unified Process continued
Construction
The development of completely new products, with
reuse capabilities.
Transition
The work of delivering the product to the customer.
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Unified Process Illustrated
Phases
Inception
Elaboration
Construction
Transition
Requirements
An iteration in the
elaboration phase
Analysis
Design
Implementation
Test
Iter #1
Iter #2
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Iter #n
Iterations
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Component-based Development
Reuse Approach
Separation of Development Processes
Component-based Development (CBD) – The Consumer
Perspective
Component Development (CD) – The Producer
Perspective
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Reuse Approach
The reuse approach makes the following assumptions:
All experience can be reused.
Reuse typically requires some modification of objects
being reused.
Reuse must be integrated into the specific software
development.
Analysis is necessary to determine when, and if, reuse
is appropriate.
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Reuse
For given requirements r for an object x, we propose the
reuse of the already existing object xk. The reuse
procedure includes:
Identification of a set of objects x1 , x2 … xm as
candidates,
Selection of one of these, and, if required,
Its modification to translate xk to x’ which is as close to x
as possible.
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Reuse continued
The object x can be of any type:
A system architecture
An overall design
A design pattern
An infrastructure
Different types of components or services.
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Separation of Development Processes
Component development
System development with components
System development with components
Focuses on the identification of reusable entities and
relations between them, beginning from the system
requirements and from the availability of components
already existing.
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Component Guidelines
Components are built to be used and reused in many
applications and should thus be:
Well specified
Easy to understand
Sufficiently general
Easy to adapt
Easy to deliver and deploy
Easy to replace
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CBD – The Consumer Perspective
Typically a component consumer selects a component
and then uses it in a software system.
The component lifecycle must be considered in relation
to the lifecycle of the system as a whole.
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The Consumer Perspective Continued
Common considerations:
Will the component producer be able to deliver a new
component version when this is required?
How will changes in a component in the system affect
the behavior of another component?
Will the component be compatible with newer versions
of the surrounding systems and applications?
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CD – The Producer Perspective
The producer of a component must take into
consideration:
The business goal
Component functionality
Maintenance policy
The type of application and system in which the
component will be used
The requirements of the system
The life expectancy of relevant systems
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Additional Considerations
The maintenance requirements of components and
systems are not necessarily compatible.
The component’s maintenance requirements should be
synchronous with those of the system in which they are
to be incorporated.
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Disposal
Disposal of Component-based Systems generally takes
place due to two different factors:
Dissatisfaction
Obsolescence
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Disposal: Dissatisfaction
Initiated by consumers when they conclude that:
The component no longer provides the support of the
system it was intended to provide or;
That the system no longer needs the component.
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Disposal: Obsolescence
When a component becomes obsolete and the producer
ceases component maintenance and operation support.
This is likely to occur when:
A new, more effective component with the same, similar
or extended functionality is found.
The producer is not able to continue with support or
maintenance.
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Disposal: Considerations
Both producer and consumer should arrive at a
compromise with respect to the lifecycles of their
different products.
The consumer should always have in mind an
alternative solution, such as:
The replacement of the component with another
developed internally or by another producers.
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Component-Based Software Lifecycle
Development With Components
Requirements Analysis and Definition
Component Selection and Evaluation
System Design
System Implementation
System Integration
Verification and Validation
System Operation Support and Maintenance
System Development Process
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Development With Components
Emphasis is placed on the reuse of pre-existing
components, rather than on the implementation of the
system designed.
First
Find reusable units which will meet the requirements
specified and will be compliant with the system design.
Second
Determine the amount of extra effort required to use
reusable units instead of units dedicated to a particular
purpose.
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Requirements Analysis and Definition
The three analysis tasks:
Capture the system requirements and define the system
boundaries.
Define the system architecture to permit component
collaboration.
Define component requirements to permit the selection
or development of the required components.
The approach is:
optimistic and an idealized view of the process.
It assumes that the component requirements can be
precisely defined and that it is possible to find
components
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Analysis and Definition Continued
Not finding a component which exactly satisfies the
requirements necessitates the development of a new
component.
The process of design and even requirements
engineering will be combined with component selection
and the evaluation process.
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Component Selection and Evaluation
The components selected must therefore be evaluated:
Technically
Non-technically
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Technical and Non-technical Evaluation
Technical aspects of evaluation include
Integration
Validation
Verification
Examples of non-technical issues include:
The marketing position of the component supplier
Maintenance support provided
Alternative solutions, etc
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Evaluation Methods
Procurement-oriented requirements engineering:
1.
Identify several component candidates.
2.
Investigate these.
3.
Reject those not compliant with the main requirements.
4.
Continue with the evaluation of the reduced number of
candidate components.
5.
If necessary refine the requirements, and repeat the
evaluation process.
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Evaluation Methods Continued
One scenario is to:
1.
Search for an internally developed component.
2.
If none suitable is found, continue by searching for an
external component.
Criteria which may favor the selection of an external
component :
Time-to-market
Production and maintenance costs,
Quality
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Evaluation of the Assembly
It is necessary to evaluate the assembly; evaluation of
the individual components is not sufficient.
This implies that an investigation of the integration
procedure may be a part of an evaluation.
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System Design
System specification and definition of the system
architecture
The initial architecture will be a result of both the overall
requirements and the choice of component model.
Many decisions related to the system design will be a
consequence of the component model selected.
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System Design: Evolutionary Approach
Component selection procedure:
Selection of component candidates, followed by;
Consideration of the feasibility of different combinations
of these.
Evolutionary approach:
To find the most appropriate and feasible combination of
the component candidates. In this way the results of the
design activity may be less predictable.
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System Implementation
Implementation by coding can be reduced to the
creation of the “glue-code” and to component
adaptation.
This effort is usually less than 50% of the total
development effort.
Effort per line of glue-code is about three times the effort
per line of the application’s code.
It may still be necessary to design and implement some
components.
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System Integration
Integration
Is the composition of the implemented and selected
components to constitute the software system.
There are several other aspects to be taken into
consideration, namely:
Component adaptation;
Reconfigurations of assemblies;
Emerging properties of assemblies integrated into the
system.
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Integration Considerations
Component adaptation
In many cases a component must be adjusted to system
requirements.
Reconfigurations of assemblies
Different assemblies (or composite components) can
include common basic components. for re-configuring
assemblies must exist.
Emerging properties
An important fact is that it is not possible to discover all
the effects of a component until the integration is
performed.
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Verification and Validation
Expressed by Boehm
Validation: are we building the right product ?
Verification: Are we building the product right ?
Component Validation and Verification
After a component is selected it should be tested to
check that it functions in accordance with its
specification.
We should also note that the component validation is
strongly related to system validation.
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System Verification and Validation
System verification and validation process is similar to
the processes for non-component-based systems.
The difference is that the implications of the processes
may be different – new component requirements may
emerge and it may happen that the selected
components cannot meet the new requirements.
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System Operation Support and Maintenance
Components exist even at run-time, making it possible
to:
Improve and maintain the system by updating or adding
new components to the system.
Improve the system quicker and more flexibly.
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Operation and Support: Considerations
Maintenance procedures can be more complicated as it
is not necessarily clear who:
Is supporting the system.
The system vendor is.
The component vendors are.
Components can be used by several other components
introducing version incompatibilities.
The same problem may appear when we install a
component package.
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Inconsistent Component Integration
Product P
Version V1
Component A
Version V1
Component B
Version V1
Product P
Version V2
Component A
Version V2
Component B
Version V2
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System Development Process
Consists of parallel tracks in which:
The basic architecture and its environment is being
developed and managed concurrently with both the
development of applications consisting of components
and the evaluation of the actual components.
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Component-based Development Process
Analysis
Find
Design
Select
Implementation
Adapt
Integration
Integrate
Test
Test
Component evaluation
System Development
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Component Development
Requirements must be
captured
analyzed
defined
The component must be
designed
implemented
verified
validated
delivered
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Component Development Considerations
Components are built to be part of something else,
thus:
There is greater difficulty in managing requirements;
Greater efforts are needed to develop reusable units;
A precise component specification is required
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Requirements Analysis and Definition
The development of reusable components would be
easier if requirements remained constant during the
time of component and system development.
As a result of new requirements for the systems old or
new requirements for the components will emerge.
The more reusable a component is, the more demands
are placed on it.
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Accumulated Component Requirements
Accumulated Requirements
Component
Product P1
Product P2
t-0
t-1
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Designing for Reusability
For a component to be reusable, it must be designed in
a more general way than a component tailored for a
unique situation.
Components intended to be reused requires
adaptability. This will increase the size and complexity
of the components
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Component Specification
It is important that the component be clearly and
properly specified.
The consumer must be able to understand the
component specification.
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Summary
In a component-based development process we
distinguish development of components from
development of systems using components:
Component development process: Is focused on
building reusable units.
System development process: Concentrates on the
reuse of components, their evaluation and integration.
These processes are often performed independently of
each other.
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Summary Continued
To achieve a proper balance between the independence
of and collaboration between the processes remains a
challenge for researchers and practitioners
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