A systematic method to identify software components

Author

Kim, Soo Dong ; Chang, Soo Ho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Soongsil Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2004

fDate

30 Nov.-3 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

538

Lastpage

545

Abstract

In component-based development (CBD), component is the basic unit for reuse and it provides a relatively coarse-grained functionality. A component typically consists of several related objects, where they collaborate in order to carry out system operations. Hence it is essential in CBD to identify components with high cohesion and low coupling. In this article, we propose a systematic UML-based method to identify components. Our approach makes use of clustering algorithms, metrics, decision rules and a set of heuristics. We assume that an object-oriented model for a target domain is available. The method takes these artifacts and transforms them into components in a seamless way.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; object-oriented programming; software metrics; software reusability; UML; clustering algorithms; coarse-grained functionality; component-based development; decision rules; heuristic set; object-oriented model; software component identification; Clustering algorithms; Collaboration; Computer science; Frequency measurement; Guidelines; Information retrieval; Libraries; Navigation; Object oriented modeling; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 2004. 11th Asia-Pacific

ISSN

1530-1362

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2245-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSEC.2004.11

Filename

1371958