In this paper, we present a pattern-based software development method that preserves usability and security quality characteristics using a role-driven mapping of requirements anal...
Critical properties of software systems, such as reliability, should be considered early in the development, when they can govern crucial architectural design decisions. A number o...
Franz Brosch, Heiko Koziolek, Barbora Buhnova, Ral...
Software architecture addresses the high level specification, design and analysis of software systems. Formal models can provide essential underpinning for architectural descripti...
John Herbert, Bruno Dutertre, Robert A. Riemenschn...
Two main issues need to be covered when dealing with the dependability of component-based systems: quality assurance of reusable software components and quality assurance of the a...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
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...