Component Specification and Testing Interoperation of Components

摘要

Component-based development (CBD) has gained in popularity in recent years due to its promise of reusable and plug-and-playable software. An ultimate goal of CBD is making plug-and-playable software development not only feasible, but also easy. In order to achieve this goal, techniques for clearly specifying components and for determining the degree to which two components can interoperate are needed. We will briefly review several definitions for software component, propose a component specification model, and describe a testing framework and tool set to check for interoperability of components.