Manual reviews and inspections of software artefacts are time consuming and thus, automated analysis tools have been developed to support the quality assurance of software artefac...
Poorly designed software systems are difficult to understand and maintain. Modifying code in one place could lead to unwanted repercussions elsewhere due to high coupling. Adding ...
Martin Drozdz, Derrick G. Kourie, Bruce W. Watson,...
This paper addresses the problem of estimating cost and development effort of a system, starting from its complete or partial high-level description. In addition, some modificatio...
William Fornaciari, Fabio Salice, Umberto Bondi, E...
Synchronous languages like Esterel have been widely adopted for designing reactive systems in safety-critical domains such as avionics. Specifications written in Esterel are based...
Lei Ju, Bach Khoa Huynh, Abhik Roychoudhury, Samar...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...