Using strong conflicts to detect quality issues in component-based complex systems

ISEC'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 India Software Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 163-172

  Di Cosmo, Roberto ^a,b   Boender, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

Author keywords

Components; Large component repositories; Open source software; Quality assurance; Strong conflicts

Indexed keywords

COARSE-GRAINED; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; COMPONENT BASED; COMPONENT REPOSITORY; FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; GNU/LINUX; LARGE COMPONENTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PLUG-INS; PREDICTABLE ASSEMBLY; SOFTWARE COMPONENT;

FLOW PATTERNS; METADATA; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77951454375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1730874.1730905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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