A survey of component based system quality assurance and assessment
Information and Software Technology
Adaptation and composition within component architecture specification
ICSR'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Components
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Current visual programming environments offer a variety of composition possibilities. Most of these environments provide drag and drop facilities of components on a form and let the interaction between components be defined by selecting suitable components and checking the incompatibilities of the resulting composition. Thus, special nature of component-baseddevelopment environments induces requirements for capabilities such as identification, retrieval and integration of components. This paper proposes a framework for comparing visual component composition techniques and environments. We identify basic and specific features that compose the framework and we show its use by comparing four visual composition environments.