Component Compatibility in Component Based Development?

This paper presents a research on component compatibility in component based development. Component-based software engineering is a process that emphasizes the design and construction of computer-based systems using reusable software components. Commercial components repositories contain hundred thousand components that make component selection an extremely difficult and time expensive task. Often component selected by functional features are incompatible or the integration effort required is too high. Adding a selection of components based also on compatibility can simplify the integration task. This work focuses on the study of component compatibility using various metrics as parameters.