Abstract. Requirements engineering, the first phase of any software development project, is the Achilles’ heel of the whole development process, as requirements documents are of...
it’s hardly Earth-shattering: abstracting your business services and separating them from your applications can yield an overall system that’s easier to build, maintain, and ex...
With the increasing wealth of digital information stored on computer systems today, security issues have become increasingly important. In addition to attacks targeting the softwar...
Large object-oriented systems have, at least, four characteristics that complicate object communication, i.e the system is distributed and contains large numbers, e.g. thousands, ...
Test factoring creates fast, focused unit tests from slow systemwide tests; each new unit test exercises only a subset of the functionality exercised by the system tests. Augmenti...