Static checking of system behaviors using derived component assumptions
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Maximum RPM
COTS Integration: Plug and Pray?
Computer
Software pioneers: contributions to software engineering
Software pioneers: contributions to software engineering
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
Communications of the ACM
Managing the Complexity of Large Free and Open Source Package-Based Software Distributions
ASE '06 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Using Software Dependencies and Churn Metrics to Predict Field Failures: An Empirical Case Study
ESEM '07 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Predicting vulnerable software components
Proceedings of the 14th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Direct-dependency-based software compatibility testing
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Failure-free coordinators synthesis for component-based architectures
Science of Computer Programming
Effective and scalable software compatibility testing
ISSTA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Strong dependencies between software components
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
On software component co-installability
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
Broken sets in software repository evolution
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
On software component co-installability
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) - Testing, debugging, and error handling, formal methods, lifecycle concerns, evolution and maintenance
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The mainstream adoption of free and open source software (FOSS) has widely popularised notions like software packages or plugins, maintained in a distributed fashion and evolving at a very quick pace. Each of these components is equipped with metadata, such as dependencies, which define the other components it needs to function properly, and the incompatible components it cannot work with. In this paper, we introduce the notion of strong conflicts, defined from the component dependencies, that can be effectively computed. It gives important insights on the quality issues faced when adding or upgrading components in a given component repository, which is one of the facets of the predictable assembly problem.Our work contains concrete examples drawn from the world of GNU/Linux distributions, that validate the proposed approach. It also shows that the measures defined can be easily applied to the Eclipse world, or to any other coarse-grained software component model.