Evaluating and Certifying Component-Based Software Using Weighted Assignment Technique

Certification refers to the verification of definite feature of an object, person, or an organization. This verification is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit. In general, the main certification idea is to bring quality process to a certain software product. One of the core goals to achieve quality in component based product is to acquire reliability, quality and compatibility with other components. We have proposed an evaluation process for certification of componentbased software. Certification is performed at component as well as system level. The six factors given by ISO are used to certify the system or component. Some other factors are also taken into consideration for certification process. Unstructured weighting technique is used to assign weights to these seven factors.