Software Development Productivity: Challenges and Future Trends

In recent years, the software development productivity has been attracting higher attention by the professional community because of its increasing importance for the development of complex software systems and applications. At the same time, component-based technologies have emerged as a modern and promising approach with a clear potential to improve significantly the productivity of software development. However, the lack of longer-term experience and the increasing complexity of the target systems demand much more research results in the field. In particular, the search for the most appropriate component model and corresponding programming environments is of high interest and importance. The higher level of complexity involves a wider range of requirements and resources which demand dedicated support for dynamic intelligent (non-functional) properties and flexibility that could be provided in an elegant way by adopting a component-based approach.