Abstract
This paper highlights the role of non-functional information when reusing from a component library. We describe a method for selecting appropriate implementations of Ada packages taking non-functional constraints into account; these constraints model the context of reuse. Constraints take the form of queries using an interface description language called NoFun, which is also used to state non-functional information in Ada packages; query results are trees of implementations, following the import relationships between components. We define two different situations when reusing components, depending whether we take the library being searched as closed or extendible. The resulting tree of implementations can be manipulated by the user to solve ambiguities, to state default behaviours, and by the like. As part of the proposal, we face the problem of computing from code the non-functional information that determines the selection process.
Keywords
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
†
This work has been partially supported by the spanish CICYT project TIC97-1158.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Mili, H.; Mili, F.; Mili, A.: Reusing Software: Issues and Research Directions. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 21, 6. IEEE Computer Society (1995)
Franch, X.: Including Non-Functional Issues in Anna/Ada Programs for Automatic Implementation Selection. Proceedings of Ada Europe 97 (London, UK). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1251. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (1997)
Franch, X.: Systematic Formulation of Non-Functional Characteristics of Software. Proceedings of International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE) (Colorado Springs, USA). IEEE Computer Society (1997)
Brassard, G.: Crusade for a better Notation. SIGACT News, 16, 4 (1985)
Prieto-Díaz, R.: Classifying Software for Reusability. IEEE Software 4, 1. IEEE Computer Society (1987)
Boisvert, R.F.: A Web Gateway to a Virtual Mathematical Software Repository. Proceedings of 2nd International WWW Conference, Chicago (Illinois, U.S.A.) (1994)
Poulin, J.S.; Werkman, K.J.: Melding Structured Abstracts and the WWW for Retrieval of Reusable Components. Proceedings of Symposium on Software Reusability (Seattle, U.S.A.) (1995)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1999 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Franch, X., Pinyol, J., Vancells, J. (1999). Browsing a Component Library Using Non-functional Information. In: González Harbour, M., de la Puente, J.A. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe’ 99. Ada-Europe 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1622. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48753-0_29
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48753-0_29
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-66093-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-48753-1
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive