Hangout for experimental confirmation and demonstration of software, computing, and networking. The exercises don't always work out. The professor is a bumbler and the laboratory assistant is a skanky dufus.
ACM News Service: Laying Foundations for Component-Based Software Markets. A combination of EC initiatives support development of organizational and commercial arrangements for component-based software. COMPONENT+ for built-in test capability is oriented to also confirming that an integration is coherent. This is tied to the European COTS User Working Group (ECUA), a growing organization now having annual workshops.
A 2005-03-07 IST Results release has the details.
The incorporation of built-in testing techniques is valuable in TROSTing of components too, so I will take special interest. The University of Pau BIT/J library for incorporating built-in testing into Java components is interesting for the way that even their documentation process is accountable. The work is available on the equivalent of a Creative Commons attribution license. Simple.