In assessing the quality of software, we would like to make engineering judgements similar to those based on statistical quality control. Ideally, we want to support statements li...
Software upgrades are unreliable, often causing downtime or data loss. I propose Imago, an approach for removing the leading causes of upgrade failures (broken dependencies) and o...
Abstract. We present an approach for enhancing dependability of component-based software. Functionality related to security, safety and reliability is encapsulated in specific com...
The electronic voting machines known as Direct Recording Electronic (DRE), that are used in many states in the US have been shown to contain security vulnerabilities [16, 9, 3]. O...
We present the universe model,a new approach to concurrencymanagement that isolates concurrency concerns and represents them in the modular interface of a component. This approach...