Abstract. Design Patterns are now widely accepted as a useful concept for guiding and documenting the design of object-oriented software systems. Still the UML is ill-equipped for ...
Design patterns have been used in object-oriented frameworks such as the IBM San Francisco framework, Apple's Rhaspody, OpenStep, and WebObjects, and DIWB. However, few guide...
The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...
Abstract. [Context and motivation] With increasing use of software, quality attributes grow in relative importance. Robustness is a software quality attribute that has not received...
Much work in software architecture has been inspired by work in physical architecture, in particular Alexander’s work on ‘design patterns’. By contrast, Alexander’s work i...
Stephen Rank, Carl O'Coill, Cornelia Boldyreff, Ma...