In the Design By Contract (DBC) approach, programmers specify methods with pre and postconditions (also called contracts). Earlier work added protocols to the DBC approach to desc...
Although researchers have been exchanging ideas on the design and development of autonomic systems, there has been little emphasis on validation. In an effort to stimulate interes...
Alain E. Ramirez, Barbara Quinones-Morales, Tariq ...
Function Point Analysis measures user requested functionality independent of the technology used for implementation. Software applications are represented stract model that contai...
Over the past decade, the need to build secure software has become a dominant goal in software development. Consequently, software researchers and practitioners have identified wa...
The number of defects is an important indicator of software quality. Agile software development methods put an explicit requirement on automation and permanently low defect rates. ...