2nd International Workshop on Incorporating COTS into Software Systems: Assessment and Prediction of Behavior and QoS Attributes of COTS Software Components and Systems

摘要

The complexity and heterogeneity of COTS-based software products are increasing rapidly. In contrast to in-house software, COTS components and systems are close entities and, as such, hide many parts of their implementation. Even if this is safe with regard to the principles of encapsulation, high-cohesion and low-coupling, one expects to determine how these external entities may behave in users deployment environments which are often different from vendors development environments. Assessment and prediction of behaviors and QoS attributes of COTS software components and systems means here that if COTS components and systems are not built/prepared for the assessment and the prediction of their properties, they may not be qualified as high-confidence software entities. The proposed workshop mainly stresses the design of COTS software, in other words how to create trustworthy software in order to better instrument, support and organize a COTS software market.