Software architectures are often designed with respect to some architecture patterns, like the pipeline and peer-to-peer. These patterns are the guarantee of some quality attribute...
Modern software is often constructed using "spiral specification"; i.e. the specification is a dynamic document that is altered by experience with the current version of...
Extract Method has been recognized as one of the most important refactorings, since it decomposes large methods and can be used in combination with other refactorings for fixing a...
An important characteristic of ubiquitous computing is that the computational services in our environment are envisioned to be far more interconnectable than today. This means it ...
—Before designing safety- or mission-critical real-time systems, a specification of the required behavior of the system should be produced and reviewed by domain experts. After ...