Even though the benefits of component-based software development are widely accepted, they are easily overestimated. To provide a firmer basis for the general discussion we descri...
Academic research sometimes suffers from the “ivory tower” problem: some ideas that sound good in theory do not necessarily work well in practice. An example of research that ...
Joseph E. Hollingsworth, Lori Blankenship, Bruce W...
—Architecture-based software reliability analysis methods shall help software architects to identify critical software components and to quantify their influence on the system r...
— Describing and managing activities, resources and constraints of software development processes is a challenging goal for many organizations. A first generation of Software Pro...
In this paper we discuss using a case study to demonstrate the software engineering process from requirements, specification, preliminary user manual, prototyping, design, impleme...