CBSE in small and medium-sized enterprise: Experience report

Abstract

Although the CBSE has a great success in software engineering, only large scale companies use it through their research and development department. Small and medium size enterprises still have some hesitations that deprives them of the various advantages offered by CBSE. This is mainly due to the economic constraints that large companies don't have. How can we make them benefit from this technology? Do they have to develop their own models? Should they obtain a modified version of this technology? What will happen to the code that already exists? What are the costs of such migration? How to proceed? In this paper we present an experiment carried out in using CBSE within the framework of a partnership 1 between a small and medium-sized enterprise and an academic research team. We present the results and the way in which this migration has been performed, by hoping that this would be an answer to the above questions. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.