Certification of Components and Component Based Systems

Component Based Software Development (CBSD) is focused on assembling existing components to build a software system, with a potential benefit of delivering quality systems by using quality components. The quality of a component-based system depends on the quality of its components, and a framework and integration process used. Hence, techniques and methods for quality assurance and assessment of a component-based system would be different from those of the traditional software engineering methodology. It is essential to quantify factors that contribute to the overall quality, for instances, the trade off between costs and quality of a component, analytical techniques and formal methods, and quality attribute definitions and measurements. In this work I explored about Component certification, Component certification techniques, IEEE 1517 standard, Component testing technologies like black box testing, Software fault injection and operational system testing.