Over the years the software engineering community has increasingly realized the important role software architecture plays in fulfilling the quality requirements of a system. The ...
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...
In this paper we discuss an approach for simulating the behaviour of interactive software systems, before starting on any of the actual implementation, based on a model of the sys...
Robert Chatley, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebasti&a...
1 Even though there has been some research on system evolution, there is no well defined vocabulary to indicate deviation of a system from desired goals. Further, there are no obje...
The last decade marked the first real attempt to turn software development into engineering through the concepts of ComponentBased Software Development (CBSD) and Commercial Off-T...