A framework for understanding CBSE risks and metrics

Summary form only given, substantially as follows. Articulates the risks and metrics associated with CBSE (component-based software engineering) technology. The goal is to share useful hints and recommendations with a view to standardizing relevant metrics and mitigating attendant risks. An important step in reaching such a goal will be to achieve community consensus on the basic features of what we believe to be the CBSE process; only with such a tool can we intelligently collect and make sense of the risks and metrics that are observed or that come to mind. This paper describes such a model for CBSE and points out examples of how it can assist in the effort to usefully articulate CBSE risks and metrics.