Poster title: Systemic quality of the component-based development process

Abstract

The concept of quality is used largely in software development through models in order to improve and certify software products as well as to determine process maturity. The approaches used to specify quality models are oriented toward product or process. However, different studies have treated simultaneously development process maturity and product quality. Component- Based Software Development (CBSD) modifies considerably the traditional software development process. There are some attempts to adjust the accepted quality models into a new component based approach, for example OOSPICE, Cai model, and Preiss Model. This research has as objective identify the model elements needed for quality specification, that considers at the same time the component quality characteristics required for CBSD and the processes that support the presence of these characteristics in the products. The model is based on the feature analysis evaluation method (DESMET), focusing on the processes that support each characteristic. As a result, we obtain a Component- Based Software Development model with a systemic approach. The systemic approach allows us to study the relationship product-process in a twofold framework: the component development process and the component-based software development process. The comprehension of these relationships allows us to improve component quality and ease component integration into applications.