Re-thinking the development process of component-based software

This paper contribution to the ECBS workshop is a position statement that a wide gap exists between the technologies for Component-based Software Engineering and the scientific foundations on which this technology relies. What is mostly lacking is a revised model for the development process. We very quickly outline a skeleton for re-thinking the models that have shaped the software production in the last decades, and we start to make some speculations, in particular for what concerns the testing stages. As a working example, we take in consideration the Enterprise Java Beans framework. However, our research goal is to draw generally valid conclusions and insights.