A critical issue for complex component-based systems design is the modeling and analysis of architecture. One of the complicating factors in developing architectural models is acc...
Software architectures can play a role in improving the testing process of complex systems. In particular, descriptions of the software architecture can be useful to drive integra...
Antonia Bertolino, Paola Inverardi, Henry Muccini,...
As software systems evolve over a series of releases, it becomes important to know which components show repeated need for maintenance. Deterioration of a single component manifes...
Catherine Stringfellow, C. D. Amory, Dileep Potnur...
Software systems of today are characterized by the increasing size, complexity, distribution and heterogeneity. Understanding and supporting the interaction between software requi...
Many adaptative context-aware middleware exist and mostly rely on so-called vertical architectures that offer a functional decomposition for context-awareness. This architecture ...
Nicolas Ferry, Stephane Lavirotte, Jean-Yves Tigli...