A knowledge-based COTS-aware requirements engineering approach
SEKE '02 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering
Black-Box Evaluation of COTS Components Using Aspects and Metadata
PROFES '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
A quality framework for developing and evaluating original software components
Information and Software Technology
New Frontiers of Reverse Engineering
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
Enabling the selection of COTS components
ICCBSS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on COTS-Based Software Systems
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Developers have to identify properties of COTS components to properly integrate them with a system under development, but COTS components are typically "black boxes" because their source code is not available. In this paper we present an approach that can be used in black-box understanding of COTS components. The major objective is to reduce the effort required to reveal component properties by partially automating interface probing. A developer provides a full, or partial, description of a component property together with a search scope where assertions are used to describe component properties. Based on this information, a search engine automatically searches for component inputs on which the component property is revealed using a combination of existing automated test generation methods for black-box testing and for white-box testing. Our initial experience has shown that this approach may be a cost-effective way of revealing properties of components.