A crucial aspect of the architecture of a software system is its decomposition into components and the specification of component interactions. In this report we use a variant of...
Software architecting is a highly knowledge-intensive process demanding and producing a large and rich amount of information. To remain competitive, companies and organizations wo...
Patricia Lago, Paris Avgeriou, Rafael Capilla, Phi...
In this study, we conducted a survey to generate archetypes of source code searching by programmers across maintenance tasks. Using a questionnaire on a web page, we obtained 69 r...
Susan Elliott Sim, Charles L. A. Clarke, Richard C...
In component-based development (CBD), component is the basic unit for reuse and it provides a relatively coarse-grained functionality. A component typically consists of several re...
Designing a complex software system is a cognitivelychallengingtask; thus, designers need cognitive support to create good designs. Domain-oriented design environments are cooperat...
Jason E. Robbins, David M. Hilbert, David F. Redmi...