Supporting End-User Development of Component-Based Software by Checking Integrity Mechanisms

Component-based software can be used to build highly tailorable and therefore flexible software systems. To support end-users when tailoring or even developing their applications themselves different approaches were discussed. This papers describes an interactive integrity check as a support for end-user development or tailoring. It is based on the idea that developers can describe the “right” use of their components as well as they can describe properties which belong to specific groups of applications. Those information can be used to check the application composed by such components at tailoring time. Thus, the learning of tailoring activities will improve as well as a better understanding for the resulting software can be achieved.