Software components are now widely used in the development of systems. However, incompatibilities between their behavioural interfaces may make their composition impossible. The o...
Abstract—During software development, design rules and contracts in the source code are often encoded through regularities, such as API usage protocols, coding idioms and naming ...
Angela Lozano, Andy Kellens, Kim Mens, Gabriela Ar...
Abstract. Software engineering uses UML diagrams as a standard technique for specification and development of software. Various UML diagrams are used for specification of different...
The emerging Model-Driven Engineering paradigm advocates the use of models as first-class citizens in the software development process, while artifacts such as documentation and so...
Model-driven performance prediction methods require detailed design models to evaluate the performance of software systems during early development stages. However, the complexity...