Programming languages provide various mechanisms to support information hiding. One problem with information hiding, however, is that providing a stable interface behind which to ...
The formal specification of design patterns is widely recognised as being vital to their effective and correct use in software development. It can clarify the concepts underlying ...
The paper first presents the integration options of what we call the Timing Description Language (TDL) with MathWorks' Simulink tools. Based on the paradigm of logical executi...
Use case diagrams (UCDs) are widely used to describe requirements and desired functionality of software products. However, UCDs are loosely linked to source code, and maintaining ...
Mark Grechanik, Kathryn S. McKinley, Dewayne E. Pe...
Increasingly, applications are being built by combining existing software components. For the most part, a software developer can treat components as black-boxes. However, for som...
Andrew Chan, Reid Holmes, Gail C. Murphy, Annie T....