Software architectures, like complex designs in any field, embody tradeoffs made by the designers. However, these tradeoffs are not always made explicitly by the designers and the...
Rick Kazman, Mario Barbacci, Mark Klein, S. Jeromy...
Analysis of dynamic data structure usage is useful for both program understanding and for improving the accuracy of other program analyses. Static analysis techniques, however, su...
Integrating several legacy software systems together is commonly performed with multiple applications of the Adapter Design Pattern in oo languages such as Java. The integration i...
Since software systems need to be continuously available under varying conditions, their ability to evolve at runtime is increasingly seen as one key issue. Modern programming fra...
All systems, regardless of how carefully they have been constructed, suffer failures. This paper focuses on developing a formal understanding of failure with respect to system imp...