Component vs. Component: Why We Need More Than One Definition

Authors:
Bernhard Grone;Andreas Knopfel;Peter Tabeling
Affiliations:
Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT-Systems Engineering;Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT-Systems Engineering;Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT-Systems Engineering
Venue:
ECBS '05 Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper discusses the different meanings of the word component in various contexts of software engineering. To overcome this ambiguity we propose to distinguish between two fundamental meanings of the term which should be emphasized by using different names.