Predicting and Accessing Security Features into Component-Based Software Development: A Critical Survey

Abstract

Software development communities have made the true venture to software development through the concept of component-based software approach and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS). Majority of the present software applications have software components as the basic elements, and component-based software development (CBSD) has been successful in building applications and systems. However, the security of CBS for the software component is still not properly noticed. Developing secure software is the accountability of all the stakeholders involved with component-based software development model. The main challenge is to access how much security we have achieved or how can we predict and evaluate the security at the early stage of software development? Software security has a very constructive impact on software productivity, maintainability, cost, and quality. Therefore, more early we introduce and evaluate security into component-based software more productivity and quality we can achieve. In this paper, efforts are done to provide some suitable guiding principle to the software engineers in the development of secure component-based software products. This paper also discusses the overview of requirement specification and analyzes the software architectures and design for developing secure component-based software products.