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IWPC
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Formal Architectural Design Patterns-Based Approach to Software Understanding
Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...
ISESE
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Quality vs. quantity: comparing evaluation methods in a usability-focused software architecture modification task
A controlled experiment was performed to assess the usefulness of portions of a Usability-Supporting Architectural Pattern (USAP) in modifying the design of software architectures...
Elspeth Golden, Bonnie E. John, Len Bass
EWSA
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Preserving Software Quality Characteristics from Requirements Analysis to Architectural Design
In this paper, we present a pattern-based software development method that preserves usability and security quality characteristics using a role-driven mapping of requirements anal...
Holger Schmidt, Ina Wentzlaff
OOPSLA
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Improving architecture testability with patterns
There is a critical need for approaches to support software testing. Our research exploits the information described at Architectural Patterns to drive the definition of tests. As...
Roberta Coelho, Uirá Kulesza, Arndt von Sta...