Second International Workshop on
Component-Based Software Engineering

Held in conjunction with the
21^st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE99)
Los Angeles, CA, USA

May 17-18, 1999

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pacc/icse99

A Proposed Outline for a Handbook of CBSE

1. Principles of CBSE
   • Definition
     • What are components?
     • What is CBSE?
     • Central ideas, principles, features
     • Terminology
   • How does CBSE differ (and relate to) similar fields?
     • Conventional OO development
     • Software reuse
     • Patterns and frameworks
     • Software/domain-specific architectures
     • Distributed object architectures
     • COTS
2. Practices of Adopting CBSE
   • CBSE Processes/Methodologies
     • Typical CBSE life-cycle phases and activities
     • How do/should CBSE processes differ from conventional development processes?
     • Component market issues
     • Economic and pricing models
     • Metrics for CBSE projects
   • Organizational Issues
     • Transition from conventional to component-based development
     • Human factors, issues, and barriers related to CBSE adoption
     • Project management
     • Education and training
     • Legal issues
   • State-of-the-Practice
     • Market analysis
       • # and % of companies adopting CBSE
       • # and sizes of CBSE projects
       • Technologies used
       • Reasons/barriers for not using
       • Market trends
     • Case studies
       • Success stories
       • Failures/lessons learned
3. Technology for Supporting CBSE
   • Development Support
     • Models, languages, and notations
       • ADLs (Architecture description languages)
       • CDLs (Component specification languages)
       • IDLs (Interface definition languages)
       • UML
       • Other modeling and design notations
     • Reusable components
       • Component libraries; search engines
       • Domain architectures
       • Repositories of common system templates/patterns
     • Tools and environments
       • Component fabrication/generation tools
       • Component assembly tools
       • Component testing and evaluation technologies
       • CBSE project management and estimating tools and techniques
   • Run Time Support
     • Run-time architectures/frameworks
       • CORBA, DCOM, Javabeans, BOFs, etc.
     • Integration technologies/tools
       • Wrappers, mediators, interfaces to legacy systems, etc.
   • Maintenance and Reengineering Support
4. Research Issues and Directions
   • Subjects in this section will intersect with topics above