IEE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
1 2 3 In many real component-based systems and patterns of component interaction, there can be identified a stable part (like control component, server, instance handler) and a nu...
IEE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
: Feature diagrams (FDs) are a family of popular modelling languages, mainly used for managing variability in software product lines. FDs were first introduced by Kang et al. as pa...
IEE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
The trend toward domain-specific languages leads to an ever-growing plethora of highly specialized languages. Developers of such languages focus on their specific domains rather t...
IEE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Aspect mining tries to identify crosscutting concerns in the code of existing systems and thus supports their adaption to an aspect-oriented design. A semi-automatic static aspect...
IEE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
The pressures which act on a software system over its life from inception to retirement are many and varied. It is an important goal in considering software evolvability to unders...
IEE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
: From a maintenance perspective, only software that is well understood can evolve in a controlled and high-quality manner. Software evolution itself is a knowledge-driven process ...
IEE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ion techniques are indispensable for the specification and verification of functional behavior of programs. In object-oriented ation languages like JML, a powerful abstraction tec...
IEE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
With Java 5 annotations, we note a marked increase in tools that can statically detect potential null dereferences. To be effective such tools require that developers annotate decl...
IEE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
: Modularity is one of the most important principles in software engineering and a necessity for every practical software. Since the design space of software is generally quite lar...