Automated and Unanticipated Flexible Component Substitution

Nicolas Desnos (1) , Marianne Huchard (2) , Christelle Urtado (1) , Sylvain Vauttier (1) , Guy Tremblay (3)

1 LGI2P - Laboratoire de Génie Informatique et Ingénierie de Production
2 MAREL - Models And Reuse Engineering, Languages
3 Département d'informatique [Montréal]

In this paper, we present an automatic and flexible approach for software component substitution. When a component is removed from an assembly, most existing approaches perform component-to-component substitution, relying on the fact that such a candidate component is avail- able, which is hardly to happen because the constraints on its interfaces are too strong. When such a component does not exist, it would be more flexible to allow a single component to be replaced by a whole component assembly. We propose such an automatic substitution mechanism which does not need the changes to be anticipated and preserves the quality of the assembly.

Mots clés: component based software engineering; simple and composite port; dynamic component substitution

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Nicolas Desnos, Marianne Huchard, Christelle Urtado, Sylvain Vauttier, Guy Tremblay. Automated and Unanticipated Flexible Component Substitution. CBSE: Component-Based Software Engineering, Jul 2007, Medford, Massachusetts, United States. pp.33-48. ⟨lirmm-00163346⟩