- Evaluate the potential components
Preconditions = Postconditions from above. Producers here are software developers, designers, component engineers.
- generate compliance matrix
- execute component producer-supplied examples in test mode
- develop and test context-specific examples
- document results of component evaluation
- document interactions with component producer
- rank candidate components (using Checklist, QESTA)
Postconditions: evaluation results from each candidate component, revisions to software architecture and component specs, ranked list of component producers and their components.