Research
Repository Goals/Evaluation
What are the goals for development, and deployment of the OMS Component Repository?
- in terms of component search/retrieval operations
- in terms of cost of contributing a component
- What is the individual effort to contribute a component to the repository?
- to describe component with metadata annotations
- to develop documentation
- to develop examples
- to develop test cases
- How can technology help reduce these costs?
- in terms of organizational costs
- repository setup costs
- repository maintenance costs
- costs to develop and contribute components
- costs to market repository
- How do we know when the repository has collected a critical mass of components?
- How do we know if the repository is successful?
- Can the effort to build and deploy the repository in terms of costs listed above be justified?
OMS Component Repository
- Domain specific repository
- Repository Codebeamer Interface: Issue Tracker
- Repository Netbeans plugin supports integration with IDE
- Repository stores source code for components and also meta data which act as the component surrogates for search and retrieval purposes
- Workflow efficiency with respect to building a model
- How does the availability of a component repository of reusable modeling components help streamline the model building process? Is there a time savings? This could be viewed as a case study to evaluate effectiveness of component based model development.
Research
Challenges
- Convincing modelers to implement models with a component based architecture as opposed to legacy methods
- Refactoring existing monolithic models
- Development of new models with an OMS, component based architecture
- Components need to be mature enough to be included/placed into a reusable repository
- Components must provide some standalone function (or a small set of coupled components must provide some standalone function)
- Achieve critical mass of components in the repository
- What is critical mass? Does this differ among modeling subdomains?
- Could OMS include provisions to simplify creation of unit tests for components?
Bibliography
- Related Literature Papers about software repositories, component based software development, software reuse, etc.
