In component-based software development, it is important to ensure interoperability between components based on their unambiguous semantic descriptions, in order to obtain a viabl...
Abstract. Software testing is an expensive and time-consuming activity; it is also error-prone due to human factors. But, it still is the most common effort used in the software in...
According to Parnas's information hiding principle and Baldwin and Clark's design rule theory, the key step to decomposing a system into modules is to determine the desi...
Sunny Huynh, Yuanfang Cai, Yuanyuan Song, Kevin J....
Automatically detecting bugs in programs has been a long-held goal in software engineering. Many techniques exist, trading-off varying levels of automation, thoroughness of covera...
As size and complexity of software systems increase, preserving the design and specification of their implementation structure gains importance in order to maintain the evolvabil...