The extraction of reusable software components from existing systems is an attractive idea. The goal of the work in this paper is not to extract a component automatically, but to ...
Specification-based retrieval provides exact contentoriented access to component libraries but requires too much deductive power. Specification-based browsing evades this bottlene...
The paper discusses ITS architectures in terms of patterns that exist within them. The concept of patterns has received surprisingly little attention so far from researchers in the...
Static analysis aims at recovering the structure of a software system, while dynamic analysis focuses on its run time behaviour. We propose a technique for combining the analysis ...
Abstract. We propose a pattern-based software development method comprising analysis (using problem frames) and design (using architectural and design patterns), of which especiall...