A fault-tolerant software architecture for COTS-based software systems

Paulo Asterio de C. Guerra, Cec?lia Mary F. Rubira, Alexander Romanovsky, Rog?rio de Lemos
2003 Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 10th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering - ESEC/FSE '03  
This paper considers the problem of integrating Commercial offthe-shelf (COTS) components into systems with high dependability requirements. Such components are built to be reused as black boxes that cannot be modified. The system architect has to rely on techniques that are external to the component for resolving mismatches between the services required and provided that might arise in the interaction of the component and its environment. The paper puts forward an approach that employs the
more » ... r-based C2 architectural style for structuring error detection and recovery mechanisms to be added to the component during system integration.
doi:10.1145/940071.940125 dblp:conf/sigsoft/GuerraRRL03 fatcat:knd3pkvkyffzbcfjwfiwrbkh5q