Systematic construction of goal-oriented cots taxonomies

• Autores: Claudia Patricia Ayala Martinez
• Directores de la Tesis: Xavier Franch (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2008
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Pere Botella López (presid.), Claudio Ulises Cortés García (secret.), Eric Dubois (voc.), Antonio Vallecillo Moreno (voc.), Mario G. Piattini Velthuis (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Matemáticas
    • Ciencia de los ordenadores
      • Informática
      • Sistemas de información, diseño y componentes
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• Resumen

  • The process of building software systems by assembling and integrating pre-packaged solutions in the form of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components has become a strategic need in a wide variety of application areas, In general, COTS components are software components that provide a specific functionality, available in the market to be purchased, interfaced and integrated into other software systems. The potential benefits of this technology are mainly its reduced costs and shorter development time, while maintaining the quality. Nevertheless, many challenges ranging form technical to legal issues must be faced for adapting the traditional software engineering activities in order to exploit these benefits.

    Nowadays there is an increasingly huge marketplace of COTS components; therefore, one of the most critical activities in COTS-based development is the selection of the components to be integrated into the system under development. Selection is basically composed of two main processes, namely: searching of candidates from the marketplace and their evaluation with respect to the system requirements. Unfortunately, most of the different existing methods for COTS selection focus their efforts on evaluation, letting aside the problem of searching components in the marketplace. Searching candidate COTS is not an easy task, having to cope with some challenging marketplace characteristics related to its widespread, evolvable and growing nature; and the lack of available and well-suited information to obtain a quality-assured search. Indeed, traditional reuse approaches also lack of appropriate solutions to reuse COTS components and the knowledge gained in each selection process. This lack of proposals is a serious drawback that makes the whole selection process highly risky, and often expensive and inefficient.

    This dissertation introduces the GOThIC (Goal-Oriented Taxonomy and reuse Infrastructure Construction) method aimed at building a domain reuse infra