Interdependence Analysis of Component Based Software

摘要

Analyzing interdependency among software components, in a largeComponent Based Software (CBS) system, is still a challenging issue in Com-ponent Based Software Engineering (CBSE). We propose the representationof interdependency among software components as a Component Interac-tion Graph (CIG). We make use of a well known data structure consisting of"two linear arrays" to represent the CIG. We also have experimented with apossible CIG for a CBS to show the quantitative characteristics of the interde-pendencies among software components and understand the ways in whichinterdependencies can be managed/ minimized.