The selection process is a crucial activity of the development of COTS-based systems. A key step of the evaluation of COTS components carried out during selection is the matching b...
Carina Alves, Xavier Franch, Juan Pablo Carvallo, ...
This case study outlines one team's shift from the traditional waterfall methodology to an agile approach for web and custom application development. The transformation occur...
Service-based systems engineering is a recent paradigm that has proven useful for the development of multifunctional systems, whose functions may be used in different contexts and...
We present a novel approach which facilitates formal verification of component-based software application families using model checking. This approach enables effective composition...
Although design metaphors play an important role in many software projects, their influence on system functionality, project methodology and the interactions among members of the ...