Agile development processes and component-based software architectures are two software engineering approaches that contribute to enable the rapid building and evolution of applic...
To integrate a software component into a system, it must interact properly with the system's other components. Unfortunately,the decisions about how a component is to interac...
The problem of managing the evolution of complex and large software systems is well known. Evolution implies reuse and modification of existing software artifacts, and this means t...
Abstract. A reference architecture integrates a set of architectural patterns that have proven their value for a family of applications. Such family of applications is characterize...
Recent evidences indicate that most faults in software systems are found in only a few of a system's components [1]. The early identification of these components allows an or...
T. Wang, Ahmed E. Hassan, Ajith Guedem, Walid Abde...