Software productivity has been a problem since the 1960's. Projects are often delayed, over budget or even canceled. Component-based software development, as a means of code reuse, has been viewed as a way to help improve the state of software engineering, but a marketplace for software components currently does not exist. It is our assertion that trust is a necessary but not a sufficient precondition for the development of a software component marketplace. To this end, we examine a variety of ways that trust can be engendered in components: creating a profession of software engineering, product certification, and process assessment.

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Creator

• Calnan, Paul William
• Andrade, Anthony John

Subject

• Sustainability
• Computing
• Industry

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 01D014I

Mot-clé

• Risk management

Advisor

• Heineman, George T.

Year

• 2001

Date created

• 2001-01-01

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright