Modularity is one of the most important properties of a software design, with significant impact on changeability and evolvability. However, a formalized and automated approach i...
Test-driven development (TDD) is an agile software development strategy that addresses both design and testing. This paper describes a controlled experiment that examines the effe...
Abstract. The need for effective testing techniques for architectural level descriptions is widely recognised. However, due to the variety of domain-specific architectural descript...
In the domain of desktop software, design patterns have had a profound impact; they are applied ubiquitously across a broad range of applications. Patterns serve both to promulgat...
Sally K. Wahba, Jason O. Hallstrom, Neelam Soundar...
Embedded systems must interact with their real-time environment in a timely and dependable fashion. Most embeddedsystems architectures and design processes consider “nonfunction...