Thread pools are often used as a pattern to increase the throughput and responsiveness of software systems. Implementations of thread pools may differ considerably from each other...
Frank S. de Boer, Immo Grabe, Mohammad Mahdi Jagho...
System specifications have long been expressed through automata-based languages, enabling verification techniques such as model checking. These verification techniques can assess ...
Scenarios are an effective means for eliciting, validating and documenting requirements. At the requirements level, scenarios describe sequences of interactions between the softwa...
Emmanuel Letier, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Sebasti&...
In situations in which developers are not familiar with a system or its documentation is inadequate, the system’s source code becomes the only reliable source of information. Unf...
Vladimir Jakobac, Alexander Egyed, Nenad Medvidovi...
Contemporary software systems are composed of many components, which, in general, undergo phased and incremental development. In order to facilitate the corresponding construction ...