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Measuring the Usability of Software Components (2006)
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| Venue: | Journal of Systems and Software |
| Citations: | 16 - 2 self |
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@ARTICLE{Bertoa06measuringthe,
author = {Manuel F. Bertoa and José M. Troya and Antonio Vallecillo},
title = {Measuring the Usability of Software Components},
journal = {Journal of Systems and Software},
year = {2006},
volume = {79},
pages = {427--439}
}
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Abstract
The last decade marked the first real attempt to turn software development into engineering through the concepts of Component-Based Software Development (CBSD) and Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components, with the goal of creating high-quality parts that could be joined together to form a functioning system. One of the most critical processes in CBSD is the selection of a set of software components from in-house or external repositories that fulfil some architectural and user-defined requirements. However, there is a lack of quality models and metrics that can help evaluate the quality characteristics of software components during this selection process. This paper presents a set of measures to assess the Usability of software components, and describes the method followed to obtain and validate them. Such a method can be re-used as a pattern for defining and validating measures for further quality characteristics.
