In a UML model, different aspects of a system are covered by different types of diagrams and this bears the risk that an overall system specification becomes barely tractable by t...
Software architecture and design are usually modeled and represented by informal diagrams, such as architecture diagrams and UML diagrams. While these graphic notations are easy t...
Complex software systems require expressive notations for representing their software architectures. Two competing paths have emerged. One is to use a specialized notation for arc...
Software performance based on performance models can be applied at early phases of the software development cycle to characterize the quantitative behavior of software systems. We...
Evaluation of non-functional properties of a design (such as performance, dependability, security, etc.) can be enabled by design annotations specific to the property to be evalua...
C. Murray Woodside, Dorina C. Petriu, Dorin Bogdan...