Software architectures, like complex designs in any field, embody tradeoffs made by the designers. However, these tradeoffs are not always made explicitly by the designers and the...
Rick Kazman, Mario Barbacci, Mark Klein, S. Jeromy...
Successful software maintenance is becoming increasingly critical due to the increasing dependence of our society and economy on software systems. One key problem of software main...
Commenting source code has long been a common practice in software development. Compared to source code, comments are more direct, descriptive and easy-to-understand. Comments and...
Secure computer systems use both mandatory and discretionary access controls to restrict the flow of information through legitimate communication channels such as files, shared ...
Unit testing component-based distributed systems traditionally involved testing functional concerns of the application logic throughout the development lifecycle. In contrast, tes...
James H. Hill, Hamilton A. Turner, James R. Edmond...