The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....
The serious bugs and security vulnerabilities facilitated by C/C++'s lack of bounds checking are well known, yet C and C++ remain in widespread use. Unfortunately, C's a...
Santosh Nagarakatte, Jianzhou Zhao, Milo M. K. Mar...
Components (in-house or pre-fabricated) are increasingly being used to reduce the cost of software development. Given that these components may not have not been developed with de...
In an investigating study to trace the productivity changes of a commercial software project, which uses incremental and iterative development model, we've found evidence tha...
Thomas Tan, Qi Li, Barry W. Boehm, Ye Yang, Mei He...
—A web service may evolve autonomously, making peer web services in the same service composition uncertain as to whether the evolved behaviors may still be compatible to its orig...
Lijun Mei, W. K. Chan, T. H. Tse, Robert G. Merkel