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ASE 2003 - Tutorial Topic: Testing Component-Based Software - Issues, Challenges, Needs, and Solutions By Jerry Zeyu Gao, Ph.D. and Ye Wu, Ph.D. Motivation: Widespread development and reuse of software components has been regarded by many as one of the next biggest phenomena for software. Reusing high-quality software components in software development has the potential of drastically improving the quality and development productivity of component-based software. However, widespread reuse of a software component with poor quality may literally lead to disasters. Component-based software engineering involves many unique characteristics, some of which have caused new issues, challenges, and needs in testing and quality assurance of components and component-based software. Improper reuse of software components of good quality may also be disastrous. Testing and quality assurance is therefore critical for both software components and component-based software systems. Although a number of recent books address the overall process of component-based software engineering and specific methods for requirements engineering, design, and evaluation of software components and component-based software. However, only a few of published papers focuses on testing and quality control of reusable software components and component-based software systems. The primary goal of this tutorial is to discuss the issues, challenges and needs in testing of components and component-based software. Moreover, this tutorial reports the recent advances and research efforts in developing new solutions to solve those problems and meet the needs. Instructional Objectives: This tutorial course provides an in-depth insight look at the technical issues and managerial aspects of testing software components and component-based programs from the perspectives of component-based software engineering. You will learn the state-of-the-art practice, issues and challenges, new solutions and research effo