Overview
The research project Comaera started at March 1st, 2005 at the FAU Erlangen, Chair 6 of Computer Science and builds upon the ideas developed in the previous project COMQUAD. It deals with the construction of software following a component-oriented approach. In contrast to already existing component models one of its goals comprises the development a model which includes nonfunctional properties of software components beside the well-known functional ones. This novel component model should enable to reason about both quantifiable nonfunctional properties, like framerate of a video transmission or the number of clients allowed to connect concurrently, and more abstract properties such as security aspects. Furthermore, those properties should be guaranteed (if the environment can support deadlines) and the properties of a complex, composite component should be automatically derivable from the ones of the constituent parts.
In this project, we investigate how to measure software components transparently and automatically, how to store and analyze the large amount of raw measurement data and finally how to use the gathered information for the prediction of properties of assemblies. Such predictions are a valuable advantage for developers as it allows them to get an idea of how an application will behave before actually building that application.
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If interested, please also have a look at the previous project COMQUAD TU Dresden as well as COMQUAD-DB Erlangen.
For the Comaera members (internal): internal Issue Tracker system.
