Maintaining software systems becomes more difficult as their size and complexity increase. One factor that makes software maintenance more difficult is the presence of code clones...
Executable UML allows precisely describing the softtem at a higher level of abstraction. It bridges the semantics gap between the UML design models and the implementation. The exe...
One major advantage of executable models is that once constructed, they can be run, checked, validated and improved in short incremental and iterative cycles. In the field of Soft...
Model refinement is a complex task. It is difficult for developers to refine models all by themselves. A good modeling tool should not only do routine refinement work for develope...
Analyzing accidents is a vital exercise in the development of safety-critical software systems to prevent past accidents from reoccurring in the future. Current practices such as ...
Tariq Mahmood, Edmund Kazmierczak, Tim Kelly, Denn...