A crucial issue in the design of Component-Based (CB) applications is the ability to early guarantee that the system under development will satisfy its Quality of Service requireme...
The UML has become the de facto standard for the analysis and design of complex software. Tool support today includes the generation of code realizing the structural model describe...
Modularisation can reduce the effort in designing and maintaining language specifications. Existing approaches to language modularisation are typically either focused on language ...
Reusable software components need well-defined interfaces, rigorously and completely documented features, and a design amenable both to reuse and to formal verification; all these...
The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...