Design pattern density is a metric that measures how much of an object-oriented design can be understood and represented as instances of design patterns. Expert developers have lo...
Software systems need to change over time to cope with new requirements, and due to design decisions, the changes happen to crosscut the system’s structure. Understanding how ch...
The quest for designing secure and trusted software has led to refined Software Engineering methodologies that rely on tools to support the design process. Automated reasoning mech...
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Component-based development is the emerging paradigm in software production, though several challenges still slow down its full taking up. In particular, the "component trust...
Runtime monitoring allows programmers to validate, for instance, the proper use of application interfaces. Given a property specification, a runtime monitor tracks appropriate run...