Developers undertaking a pragmatic reuse task must collect and reason about information that is spread throughout the source code of a system before they can understand the scope ...
Abstract. Different kinds of unit testing activities are used in practice. Organised unit testing (regression testing or test-first activities) are very popular in commercial pract...
Reuse is one of the key benefits of components. It inherently means that the functionality of a component may be employed only partially. This triggers the issue whether all of th...
Policy authors typically reconcile several different mental models and goals, such as enabling collaboration, securing information, and conveying trust in colleagues. The data un...
In component software, the independence of components is achieved by separating their interfaces from implementations. The interface definition of a component serves as the contr...