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Component-based technologies are currently beginning to mature and are now widely used in the development of commercial software systems. This has led to the existence of several research works focusing on software component quality. Some of these works propose various measures whose result is normally a number. When dealing with large measures sets, a useful tool through which to facilitate their interpretation is that of visualisation. This paper presents a scalable visual metaphor with which to represent component quality characteristics. Finally, a tool which uses this visual metaphor to show the quality level of usability sub-characteristics has been developed. As an example, the tool has been applied to one real component in order to obtain their usability level.
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Moraga, M.Á., Calero, C. (2009). Visuco: A Tool for Visualizing Software Components Usability. In: Yang, J., Ginige, A., Mayr, H.C., Kutsche, RD. (eds) Information Systems: Modeling, Development, and Integration. UNISCON 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01112-2_31
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