Mälardalen University Press Doctoral Theses No.121 Managing Extra-Functional Properties in Component-Based Development of Embedded Systems

To the ones I love who have always been there for me when I needed it the most. The continuously increasing complexity of embedded systems is a major issue for their development, which, in addition, must also consider specific extra-functional requirements and constraints, such as limited and shared resources, distribution, timing, and dependability. Thus, embedded systems call for de-velopment solutions that can efficiently and predictably cope with these issues. Component-based software engineering is a proven paradigm to handle com-plexity. Yet, for efficiently managing extra-functional properties, a component model needs to have dedicated mechanisms that provide a suitable support for their management. The objective of this thesis is to build this support. We have performed a systematic analysis of existing component models and identified challenges of applying a component-based approach to embed-ded system development. Based on these challenges we have advanced th