Assessing reliability at early stages of software development, such as at the level of software architecture, is desirable and can provide a cost-effective way of improving a soft...
Abstract. Evaluating the implications of an architecture design early in the software development lifecycle is important in order to reduce costs of development. Reliability is an ...
Nowadays, software evolution is a very hot topic. Many applications need to be updated or extended with new characteristics during their lifecycle. Software evolution is character...
The knowledge required to develop complex software has historically existed in programming folklore, the heads of experienced developers, or buried deep in the code. These locatio...
The increasing size and complexity of high-performance applications have motivated a new round of innovation related to configuration, build, and launch of applications for large ...