Heterogeneous system specifications implicitly assume parallel execution of their components that rely on supporting platform architectures and operating systems. Unfortunately, c...
In this paper we study the fragile base class problem. This problem occurs in open object-oriented systems employing code inheritance as an implementation reuse mechanism. System d...
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) define the level of service that a service provider must deliver. An SLA is a contract between service provider and consumer, and includes appropri...
Tony Chau, Vinod Muthusamy, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, El...
Designers of component-based software face two problems related to dealing with abnormal events: developing exception handling at the level of the integrated system and accommodat...
Abstract. This paper presents a pilot system and discusses its possible extensions. In the first sections, we present a web-based test authoring system for English grammar and voca...