Little guidance and few methods are available to refine a set of software requirements into an architecture satisfying those requirements. Part of the challenge stems from the fac...
Legacy systems provide services that remain useful beyond the means of the technology in which they were originally implemented. Our Legacy Wrapper tool packages the services of a...
Complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Replacing a software component with a newer version is the basic evolution operation that has to be supported. It i...
A deterministic behavior of systems composed of several modules is a desirable design goal. Assembling a complex system from components requires also a high degree of re-usability....
Abstract—Frameworks are a key technology to reduce software development costs and shorten the time-to-market. However, framework complexity presents reuse problems that limit its...