A Fault Taxonomy for Component-based Software

Component technology is increasingly used to develop modular, configurable, and reusable systems. The problem of design and implement component-based systems is addressed by many models, methodologies, tools, and frameworks. On the contrary, analysis and test are not adequately supported yet. In general, a coherent fault taxonomy is a key starting point for providing techniques and methods for assessing the quality of software and in particular of component-based systems. This paper proposes a fault taxonomy to be used to develop and evaluate testing and analysis techniques for component-based software