One of the primary challenges in embedded system design is designing the memory hierarchy and restructuring the application to take advantage of it. This task is particularly impo...
As software grows more complex, software developers’ productivity is increasingly defined by their ability to effectively reuse code. Even APIs (application programming interfac...
Jeffrey Stylos, Benjamin Graf, Daniela K. Busse, C...
Software Fault Tree Analysis (SFTA) provides a structured way to reason about the safety or reliability of a software system. As such, SFTA is widely used in missioncritical appli...
The success of an object-oriented software development project highly depends on how well the designers can capture the Hot Spots of the application domain, that is, those aspects...
Mobile devices like PDAs or mobile phones have become widespread. Similarly, network functionality like GSM, Bluetooth, or WLAN has become standard. Nevertheless, not many applica...