Title :
A method for built-in tests in component-based software maintenance
Author :
Wang, Yingxu ; King, Graham ; Wickburg, Hakan
Author_Institution :
Centre for Software Eng., Gothenburg, Sweden
Abstract :
Viewing software structure as a composition of components is helpful to enable software maintenance to be carried out at a higher level than language statements, as well as to improve software maintenance efficiency and quality, and to increase the reuse rate of existing software components in maintenance. In this paper, types of software maintenance are classified and scopes of software components in component-based software maintenance are analyzed. A new kind of built-in test (BIT) components for maintainable software is developed Based on this, a test/maintenance mode of maintainable software is proposed. Implementation approaches of the BIT components for software maintenance are developed. Applications of the BIT components in enhancing software maintainability in reengineering legacy systems for maintainability, and in ensuring run-time consistency are described
Keywords :
built-in self test; program testing; software maintenance; software reusability; subroutines; systems re-engineering; built-in test components; component-based software maintenance; language statements; legacy systems reengineering; maintainable software; runtime consistency; software component reuse rate; software component scopes; software maintainability; software maintenance efficiency; software maintenance quality; software structure; test/maintenance mode; Circuits; Computer science; Embedded software; Hardware; Software maintenance; Software testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 1999. Proceedings of the Third European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0090-0
DOI :
10.1109/CSMR.1999.756697
