How do design decisions impact the quality of the resulting software? In an empirical study of 52 ECLIPSE plug-ins, we found that the software design as well as past failure histo...
Software patterns are a new design paradigm used to solve problems that arise when developing software within a particular context. Patterns capture the static and dynamic structu...
: In this paper we describe the advantages of a model-based approach to embedded component middleware. Component infrastructures such as Enterprise JavaBeans, Microsoft’s COM+ an...
—We have defined a software component model which specifies components and composition operators. These operators coordinate and encapsulate concurrency between components. In ...
systems are commonly abstracted as collections of interacting components. This perspective has lead to the insight that component behaviors can be defined separately from admissi...