Design by Contract (DbC) is widely acknowledged to be a powerful technique for creating reliable software. DbC allows developers to specify the behavior of an operation precisely ...
Design patterns describe solutions to recurring design problems in the development of software designs. To encourage the use of design patterns, we are investigating tool support ...
Dae-Kyoo Kim, Robert B. France, Sudipto Ghosh, Eun...
An approach is presented that automatically determines if a given source code change impacts the design (i.e., UML class diagram) of the system. This allows code-to-design traceab...
Maen Hammad, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Malet...
A software architecture provides a high-level description of a software solution in terms of the structure, topology, and interactions between its principal components. While a nu...
Ebenezer A. Oladimeji, Sam Supakkul, Lawrence Chun...
STAIRS is an approach to the compositional development of sequence diagrams supporting the specification of mandatory as well as potential behavior. In order to express the necess...