Component-based Software Engineering – New Challenges in

Software Development
Ivica Crnkovic
Mälardalen University, Department of Computer Engineering, Västerås, Sweden
[email protected], http://www.idt.mdh.se/personal/icc
tel: +56 70 533 75 57 fax: +46 21 10 41 60

Abstract

The primary role of component-based software engineering is to address the development of

systems as an assembly of parts (components), the development of parts as reusable entities, and
the maintenance and upgrading of systems by customising and replacing such parts. This
requires established methodologies and tool support covering the entire component and system
lifecycle including technological, organisational, marketing, legal, and other aspects. The
traditional disciplines from software engineering need new methodologies to support component
-based development.

IVICA CRNKOVIC assesses the challenges of this emerging technology and discusses its
implications for the software development process.

Keywords : Software Components, Software Engineering, Software Architecture, COTS,

Component-based development, Component-based Software Engineering

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Software Development Challenges
We are witnessing an enormous expansion in the use of software in business, industry,
administration and research. Software is no longer marginal in technical systems but has now
become a central factor in many fields. System features based on software functionality, rather
than other characteristics, are becoming the most important factor in competing on the market,
for example in car industry, the service sector and in schools. Increasing numbers of software
users are non-experts. These trends place new demands on software. Usability, robustness, simple
installation and integration become the most important features of software. As a consequence of
the wider area of software utilisation, the demand for the integration of different areas has
increased. We distinguish between vertical integration in which data and processes at different
levels are integrated, and horizontal integration in which similar types of data and processes from
different domains are integrated. For example, in industrial process automation, at the lowest
levels of management (Field Management), data collected from the process and controlled
directly, is integrated on the plant level (Process Management), then is further processed for
analysis and combination with data provided from the market and finally published on the Web
(Business Management).
A consequence of all this is that software is becoming increasingly large and complex.
Traditionally, software development addressed challenges of increasing complexity and
dependence on external software by focussing on one system at a time and on delivery deadlines
and budgets, while ignoring the evolutionary needs of the system. This has led to a number of
problems: the failure of the majority of projects to meet their deadline, budget, and quality
requirements and the continued increase in the costs associated with software maintenance.
To meet these challenges, software development must be able to cope with complexity and to
adapt quickly to changes. If new software products are each time to be developed from scratch,
these goals cannot be achieved. The key to the solution to this problem is reusability. From this
perspective Component-based Development (CBD) appears to be the right approach. In CBD
software systems are built by assembling components already developed and prepared for
integration. CBD has many advantages. These inc lude more effective management of
complexity, reduced time to market, increased productivity, improved quality, a greater degree of
consistency, and a wider range of usability[1].

However, there are several disadva ntages and risks in using CBD which can jeopardise its
success.
− Time and effort required for development of components. Among the factors which can
discourage the development of reusable components is the increased time and effort
required, the building of a reusable unit requires three to five times the effort required to
develop a unit for one specific purpose. (B. Spencer, Microsoft, Presentation at 22nd ICSE,
1999, also an interesting observation about efficient reuse of real-time components, made
by engineers at Siemens [2] that, as a rule of thumb, the overhead cost of developing a
reusable component, including design plus documentation, is recovered after the fifth reuse.
Similar experience at ABB [3] shows that reusable components are exposed to changes
more often than non-reusable parts of software at the beginning of their lives, until they
reach a stable state.)

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 − Unclear and ambiguous requirements. In general, requirements management is an
important part of the development process, its main objective being to define consistent
and complete component requirements. Reusable components are, by definition, to be used
in different applications, some of which may yet be unknown and the requireme nts of
which cannot be predicted. This applies to both functional and non- functional
requirements.
− Conflict between usability and reusability. To be widely reusable, a component must be
sufficiently general, scalable and adaptable and therefore more comple x (and thus more
complicated to use), and more demanding of computing resources (and thus more
expensive to use). A requirement for reusability may lead to another development
approach, for example building a new, a more abstract level, which gives less flexibility
and fine tuning, but achieves better simplicity [3][4].
− Component maintenance costs. While application maintenance costs can decrease,
component maintenance costs can be very high since the component must respond to the
different requirements of different applications running in different environments, with
different reliability requirements and perhaps requiring a different level of maintenance
support.
− Reliability and sensitivity to changes. As components and applications have separate
lifecycles and different kinds of requirements, there is some risk that a component will not
completely satisfy the application requirements or that it may include concealed
characteristics not known to application developers. When introducing changes on the
application level (changes such as updating of operating system, updating of other
components, changes in the application, etc.), there is a risk that the change introduced will
cause system failure.
To enjoy the advantages and avoid the problems and risks, we need a systematic approach to
component-based development at the process and technology levels.

Component-Based Software Engineering

The concept of building software from components is not new. A “classical” design of complex
software systems always begins with the identification of system parts designated subsystems or
blocks, and on a lower level modules, classes, procedures and so on. The reuse approach to
software development has been used for many years. However, the recent emergence of new
technologies has significantly increased the possibilities of building systems and applications
from reusable components. Both customers and suppliers have had great expectations from
CBD, but their expectations have not always been satisfied. Experience has shown that
component-based development requires a systematic approach to and focus on the component
aspects of software development [3]. Traditional software engineering disciplines must be
adjusted to the new approach, and new procedures must be developed. Component-based
Software Engineering (CBSE) has become recognised as such a new sub-discipline of Software
Engineering.

The major goals of CBSE are the provision of support for the development of systems as
assemblies of components, the development of components as reusable entities, and the
maintenance and upgrading of systems by customising and replacing their components [5]. The
building of systems from components and the building of components for different systems

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requires established methodologies and processes not only in relation to the
development/maintenance aspects, but also to the entire component and system lifecycle
including orga nisational, marketing, legal, and other aspects. In addition to specific CBSE
objectives such as component specification or composition and technologies, there are a number
of software engineering disciplines and processes which require specific methodologies for
application in component-based development. Many of these methodologies are not yet
established in practice, some are not even developed. The progress of software development in
the near future will depend very much on the successful establishment of CBSE and this is
recognized by both industry and academia. All major software engineering conferences now
include sessions related to CBSE and CBSE workshops are held frequently[6][7][8][9][10].
According to the Gartner Group [11] “By 2002, 70 percent of all new applications will be
deployed using component-based application building blocks.”

Overviews of certain CBSE disciplines and some of the relevant trends and challenges in the near
future are presented below.

Component Specification
For a common understanding of component-based development, the starting point is an
agreement of what a component is and what it is not. As a generic term the concept is pretty clear
– a component is a part of something – but this is too vague to be useful. The definition of a
component has been widely discussed [13][14]. However, we shall adopt Szyperski’s definition
[4], which is the most frequently used today:
A software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interface and explicit
context dependencies only. A software component can be deployed independently and is subject
to composition by third parts.
The most important feature of a component is the separation of its interface from its
implementation. This separation is different from those which we can find in many programming
languages (such as ADA or Modula-2), in which declaration is separated from implementation, or
those in object-oriented programming languages in which class definitions are separated from
class implementations. We require that the integration of a component into an application should
be independent of the component development lifecycle and that there should be no need to
recompile or re- link the application when updating with a new component. Another important
characteristic of the separatio n is that the component implementation is only visible through its
interface. This is especially significant for components delivered by a third party. An implication
of this is the requirement for a complete specification of a component including its functional
interface, non-functional characteristics (performance, resources required, etc.), use cases, tests,
etc. While current component-based technologies successfully manage functional interfaces,
there is no satisfactory support for managing other parts of a component specification.

The component definition adopted above is focused on the use of components. It says little about
how to design, implement and specify a component. There are however, other definitions which
point to other aspects of component-based development. For example there is a strong relation
between object-oriented programming (OOP) and components. Component models (also called
component standards) COM/DCOM [15][16], .NET[17], Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)[18][19],
and CORBA Component Model (CCM) [20] relate Component Interface to Class Interface.
Components adopt object principles of unification of functions and data encapsulation. Cheesman
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and Daniels [21] consider that a component can exist in several forms during its lifecycle:
Component Specification (component characteristics, component function), Component Interface
(a part of its specification, a definition of a component’s behaviour), Component Implementation
(A realisation of a Component Specification), Installed Component (deployed instance of a
Component Implementation) and Component Object (an instance of Installed Object). Not all
researchers agree that components are extensions of OOP. On the contrary, they consider that the
difference between components and objects lies in the fact that an object has state and is a unit of
instantiation, while a component is stateless and is a unit of deployment [4].
There are also different understandings of CBD in academia and industry [22]. While researchers
in academia define components as well defined entities (often small, and with easily understood
functional and non- functional features), industry sees components as parts of a system which can
be reused, but are not necessarily well defined with explicit interfaces and with slight or no
conformance with component models. A component can be an amorphous part of a system, the
adaptation of which may require much effort. Such components (or rather reusable entities) are of
extreme importance, as the larger the components are, the greater the productivity which can be
achieved by their reuse.

Component specification remains a topic of research. Component standards are mostly

concentrated on the interface definition, while non- functional properties are specified (if
specified at all) informally in separate documentation. Some improvements in that direction, by
gathering both functional characteristics and design characteristics, have been made in the new
Microsoft Component Model .NET.

Component-Based System Development Lifecycle

CBSE addresses the requirements, challenges and problems similar to others encountered
elsewhere in software engineering. Many of the methods, tools and principles of software
engineering can be used in the same or in a similar way as in other types of applications or
systems but there is one distinction, CBSE covers both component development and system
development with components. There is a slight difference in the requirements and business ideas
in the two cases and different approache s are necessary. Of course, when developing
components, other components can be (and often must be) incorporated but the main emphasis is
on reusability: Components are built to be used and reused in many applications, some not yet
existing. A component must be well specified, easy to understand, sufficiently general, easy to
adapt, easy to deliver and deploy and easy to replace. The component interface must be as simple
as possible and strictly separated (both physically and logically) from its implementation.
Marketing factors play an important role as development costs must be recovered from future
earnings, this being especially true for COTS. However, the main problem in developing
components is in the acquisition and elicitation of requirements in comb ination with COTS
selection [23] because the process includes multi-criteria decisions. If the process begins with
requirements selection, it is highly probable that a COTS meeting all the requirements will not be
found. If components are selected too early in the process, the system obtained may not meet all
the requirements.

Development with components is focused on the identification of reusable entities and relations
between them, starting from the system requirements. The early design process includes two
essential steps: Firstly, specification of a system architecture in terms of functional components
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and their interaction, this giving a logical view of the systems and secondly, specification of a
system architecture consisting of physical components.

Different lifecycle models, established in software engineering, can be used in CBD. These
models will be modified to emphasise component-centric activities. Let us, consider, for
example, the waterfall model using an ext reme component-based approach. Fig. 1 shows the
waterfall model and the meaning of the phases. Identifying requirements and a design in the
waterfall process is combined with finding and selecting components. The design includes the
system architecture design and component identification/selection.

Requirements Design Implementation Test Release Maintenance

3 Create

1 Find 2 Select 4 Adapt 4 Test 5 Deploy 6 Replace

Fig. 1. The development cycle compared with the waterfall model.

The different steps in the component-based systems development process are:
− Find components which may be used in the system. All possible components are listed here
for further investigation. To successfully perform this procedure, a vast number of possible
candidates must be available as well as tools for finding them. This is an issue not only of
technology, but also of business.
− Select the components which meet the requirements of the system. Often the requirements
cannot be fulfilled completely, and a trade-off analysis is needed to adjust the system
architecture and to reformulate the requirements to make it possible to use the existing
components.
− Alternatively, create a proprietary component to be used in the system. In a component-
based development process this procedure is less attractive as it requires more efforts and
lead-time. However, the components that include core- functionality of the product are
likely to be developed internally as they should provide the competitive advantage of the
product.
− Adapt the selected components so that they suit the existing component model or
requirement specification. Some components would be possible to directly integrated in to
the system, some would be modified through parameterisation process, some would need
wrapping code for adaptation, etc.
− Compose and deploy the components using a framework for components. Typically
component models would provide that functionality.

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 − Replace earlier with later versions of components. This corresponds with system
maintenance. Bugs may have been eliminated or new functionality added.
There are many other aspects of CBD which require specific methods, technologies and
management. For example, development environment tools [24][25], component models and
support for their use, software configuration management [26], testing, software metrics, legal
issues, project management, development process, standardisation and certification issues, etc.
Discussion of these is beyond the scope of this article and the relation between software
architecture and CBD is discussed in the following.

Software Architecture and Component-Based Development

Software architecture and components are closely related. All software systems have an
architecture which can be viewed in terms of the decomposition of the system into components
and their relations. A commonly used definition of Software architecture is [28]: “The software
architecture of a program or computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which
comprise software components, the externally visible properties of those components and the
relationships among them.” Traditionally, software architecture is at the focus in the early design
phase when the overall structure of the system is designed to satisfy functional and non-
functional requirements. In monolith applications, the architecture specified in the design process
is concealed at execution time in one block of executable code. Component technologies focus
on composition and deployment, closer to or at execution time. In a component-based system, the
architecture remains recognisable during the application or system execution, the system still
consisting of clearly separated components. The system architecture thus remains an important
factor during the execution phase. Component-based Software Engineering embraces the total
lifecycles of components and component-based systems and all the procedures involved in such
lifecycles.
In a “classical” approach, the design of software begins with determining its architecture,
structuring the system in smaller parts, as independent as possible. The first phase of this
structuring is functionality-based architectural design. The second phase is software architecture
assessment during which the software architecture is evaluated with respect to the driving quality
requirements. Once the software architecture has been defined, the components which are to
constitute the system must be developed or selected. We can distinguish different categories of
components in relation to the requirements of the system: special purpose components, developed
specifically for the system, reused components, internally developed for multiple usage, and final
commercial components (COTS). Pre-existing components typically need to be integrated into
the sys tem using glue code or a modification of the components themselves. This top-down
approach ensures the fulfilment of the requirements, or at least a better control of requirements
fulfilment. However, this approach does not encourage the reuse of pre-existing components,
especially not commercial components, since there is a high degree of probability that the pre-
existing components do not exactly fit into the system. Another approach, a mix of bottom-up
and top-down approaches begins with the system requirements and the analysis of possible
candidate components. The component specification and selection have impact on the final
requirements and the system architecture. In this case, software architecting is primarily
concerned with identifying means of optimising the interactions between the given components.
Since basic artefacts for both software architecture and component technologies are components
and their composition it is natural that they will merge, i.e. use common techniques, methods and

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tools. Architectural definition languages (ADLs), for example ACME [29], can be used for
designing component-based-systems and implemented for the existing component models.

Software architecture is often related to a process of tradeoff analysis. Experience has shown that
the many attributes of large software systems live principally in the system's software
architecture. In such systems the achievement of qualities attributes depends more on the overall
software architecture than on code- level practices such as language choice, detailed design,
algorithms, data structures, testing, and so on. There exist several methods for such analysis, for
example SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) [30] and ATAM (Architecture
Tradeoff Analysis Method) [31]. Both ATAM and SAAM are a scenario-based method.
However, unlike the SAAM, the ATAM focuses on multiple quality attributes (modifiability,
availability, security, and performance) and is aimed at locating and analysing tradeoffs in a
software architecture. For component-based systems a modified approach in these analyses is
required. The components have pre-determined attributes, some of them immanent only to the
component, but some of them emerging in composition with other components. A tradeoff
analysis helps in selecting the proper components and in predicting the attributes of component
compositions. At the same time inclusion of the pre-existing components sets the boundaries in
which the analysis can be performed. For example one characteristic of a candidate component
can be a high reusability but a poor performance, while of the other candidate a better
performance but a lower reusability. The architectural analysis will he lp in making decision in
component selection.

Software architecture and CBD are successfully used in the development of software product
lines [22][27] from which many variants of a product are delivered. Typical product variants
contain a set of core-components and a number of additional components. The component-based
approach and architectural design play important role in product configuration management.

UML and Component-Based Systems Modelling

UML (Unified Modelling Language) can be used for both component and system modelling, as
shown in [21]. Component-driven design concentrates on interface definitions and collaboration
between the components through the interfaces. The design process continues with the modelling
of the system with physical components, which do not necessarily match the logical structure.
These may be pre-existing components, with interface already specified and possibly in need of
wrappers. One logical component, identified in the first phase of design, may consist of several
physical components. Finally, there is a deployment aspect, the components being executed on
different computers in a distributed application. In a non-component-base approach the first, the
design phase is important, while mapping between the conceptual and implementation level is a
direct mapping, and the deployment phase is the same for the whole application. In principle,
UML [32] can be utilized to provide support for designing component-based systems covering all
these aspects[1],[5]. Interfaces are presented as multiple subsystems (also multiple interfaces may
be realised by a subsystem), which indicate the possibility of changing the implementation
without replacing the interface. An interface can be presented in two ways (see Fig. 2), the
second alternative being the more common presentation.

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 <<interface>>
<<subsystem>>
IAccount Canonical Form
Account
+getAccount()

<<subsystem>>
Elided Form
IAccount Account

Fig. 2. UML component

Fig. 3 shows the three aspects of system architecture. The conceptual architecture is a result of a
top-down system analysis and design and in at least the first step is not different from a “non-
component-based” design. In the conceptual part the components are expressed by UML
packages with the <<subsystems>> stereotype. In the implementation architecture part, the
physical components are represented by UML components and the <<imp>> stereotype. Note
that the implementation part is not necessary only refinement of the conceptual level, but also the
structure can be changed. For example, different packages can include the same physical
components. It may also happen that the component selection requires modifications of the
conceptual architecture.

UML is however not specialised for CBD and certain extensions to standard UML (such as
naming convention, or stereotypes) are required. The component interfaces cannot be described
by UML at such a detailed level that they can be used directly. For this reason there exist
extensions to UML, for example Catalysis [33]. Further work on UML related to CBSE is
expected. The next major version of UML (UML 2.0) [34] includes proposals for extensions for
describing Enterprise Java Beans, data modelling entities, real- time components, XML
components, etc. Many of these are related directly or indirectly to CBSE.

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 <<subsystem>> <<subsystem>>
IComA ComA IComB ComB

Conceptual
Architecture
<<subsystem>>
IComA ComC

Implementation
Architecture
<<imp>> <<imp>>
IComA ComA IComB ComB

<<imp>> <<imp>> <<imp>>

ISysX SysX IComC ComC IComY ComY

Deployment
Architecture

:ComA :ComB

:SysX :ComC :ComB

Server DataServer

Fig. 3. Examples of different aspects of component -based architecture

Future of Component-Based Software Engineering

It is obvious that CBD and CBSE are in the very first phase of their lives. CBD is recognized as a
new, powerful approach that will, if not revolutionise, at least significantly change the
development of software and software use in general. We can expect that components and
component-based services will be widely used by non-programmers for building their
applications. Tools for building such applications by component assembly will be developed.
Automatic component update over the Internet, already present today in many applications, will
be a standard means of application improvement. Another trend we can see is the standardisation
of domain-specific components on the interface level. This will make it possib le to build
applications and system from components purchased from different vendors. The standardisation
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of domain-specific components requires the standardisation of domain-specific processes.
Widespread work on standardisation in different domains is already in progress, (a typical
example is OPC Foundation [35], working on a standard interface to make possible
interoperability between automation/control applications, field systems/devices and
business/office applications). Support for the exchange of information between components,
applications, and systems distributed over the Internet will be further developed. Works related to
XML [36] will be further expanded.
CBSE is facing many challenges today, some of these are summarised in the following.
− Trusted components - Because the trend is to deliver components in binary form and the
component development process is outside the control of component users, questions
related to component trustworthiness become of great importance. The meaning of
“trustworthiness” is, however, not precisely defined. Although there are formal definitions
of many attributes associated with the concept “trustworthiness” (reliability and
robustness, for examples), there is no formal definition and understanding of
“trustworthy”, no standardised measurement or trustworthiness . What are the effects of
different degrees of trustworthiness on system attributes is not known.

− Component certification – One way of classifying components is to certificate them. In

spite of the common belief that certification means absolute trustworthiness, it in fact only
gives the results of tests performed and a description of the environment in which the tests
were performed. While certification is a standard procedure in many domains, it is not yet
established in software in general and especially not for software components [37][38].

− Composition predictability – Even if we assume that we can specify all the relevant
attributes of components, it is not known how these attributes determine the
corresponding attributes of systems of which they are composed. The ideal approach, to
derive system attributes from component attributes is still a subject of research. A
question remains - “Is such derivation at all possible? Or should we not concentrate on
the measurement of the attributes of component composites?” [39].

− Requirements management and component selection - Requirements management is a

complex process. A problem of requirements management is that requirements in general
are incomplete, imprecise and contradictory. In an in- house development, the main
objective is to implement a system which will satisfy the requirements as far as possible
within a specified framework of different constraints. In component-based development,
the fundamental approach is the reuse of existing components. The process of engineering
requirements is much more complex as the possible candidate components usually lacking
one or more features which meet the system requirements exactly. In addition, even if
some components are individually well suited to the system, it is not necessary that they
do not function optimally in combination with others in the system- or perhaps not at all.
These constraints may require another approach in requirements engineering – an analysis
of the feasibility of requirements in relation to the components available and the
consequent modification of requirements. As there are many uncertainties in the process
of component selection there is a need for a strategy for managing risks in the components
selection and evolution process [40],[5].

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 − Long-term management of component-based systems – As component-based systems
include sub-systems and components with independent lifecycles, the problem of system
evolution becomes significantly more complex. There are many questions of different
types: technical issues (can a system be updated technically by replacing components?),
administrative and organisational issues (which components can be updated, which
components should be or must be updated?), legal issues (who is responsible for a system
failure, the producer of the system or of the component?), etc. CBSE is a new approach
and there is little experience as yet of the maintainability of such systems. There is a risk
that many such systems will be troublesome to maintain.

− Development models – Although existing development models demonstrate powerful

technologies, they have many ambiguous characteristics, they are incomplete, and they
are difficult to use.

− Component configurations – Complex systems may include many components which, in

turn, include other components. In many cases compositions of components will be
treated as components. As soon as we begin to work with complex structures, the
problems involved with structure configuration popup. For example, two compositions
may include the same component. Will these components be treated as two different
entities or will they be assumed to be one identical entity? What happens if these
components are of different versions, which version will be selected? What happens if
these versions are not compatible? The problems of the dynamic updating of components
are already known, but their solutions are still the subject of research [41].

− Dependable systems and CBSE - The use of CBD in safety-critical domains, real-time
systems, and different process-control systems, in which the reliability requirements are
more rigorous, is particularly challenging. A major problem with CBD is the limited
possibility of ensuring the quality and other non- functional attributes of the components
and thus our inability to guarantee specific system attributes.

− Tool support – The purpose of Software Engineering is to provide practical solutions to

practical problems, and the existence of appropriate tools is essential for a successful
CBSE performance. Development tools, such as Visual Basic, have proved to be
extremely successful, but many other tools are yet to appear – component selection and
evaluation tools, component repositories and tools for managing the repositories,
component test tools, component-based design tools, run-time system analysis tools,
component configuration tools, etc. The objective of CBSE is to build systems from
components simply and efficiently, and this can only be achieved with extensive tool
support.

These are some of the many challenges facing CBSE today. The goal of CBSE is to standardise
and formalise all disciplines supporting activities related to CBD. The success of the CBD
approach depends directly on further research and the implementation of CBSE.

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