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Chapter 2: What are Software Components?

      https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813221888_0002Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
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      Abstract:

      What exactly are software components? This question is clearly fundamental to CBD and has been discussed thoroughly (see e.g. [Broy et al. (1998)]). The most widely adopted definition of a software component is the following by Szyperski [Szyperski et al. (2002)]:

      “A software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only. A software component can be deployed independently and is subject to composition by third parties.”.