Defining “predictable assembly”

  • Authors:
  • Dick Hamlet

  • Affiliations:
  • Portland State University, Portland, OR

  • Venue:
  • CBSE'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Component-Based Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Predictable assembly in component-based software development intuitively means the ability to predict effectively properties of a system, making essential use of properties of its components. A formal definition is difficult to give, because the idea is a large, vague one. As an outgrowth of an informal workshop, this paper frames a mathematical definition. A somewhat surprising consequence of the formal definition is that assembly is usually predictable, but each particular case requires engineering effort to establish.