The drive from the South African Government towards the adoption of open source software across all platforms, incurred a number of research and development questions. The open so...
Component-Based Development (CBD) of software, with its successes in enterprise computing, has the promise of being a good development model due to its cost effectiveness and pote...
The market for software components is growing, driven on the "demand side" by the need for rapid deployment of highly functional products, and on the "supply side&q...
NASA is, with the rest of industry, turning to product-line engineering to reduce costs and improve quality by effectively managing reuse. Experience in industry has shown that it...
Distributed hard real-time systems have become a major component of many advanced technical products. Means to ensure their proper quality are thus of paramount importance. To ens...