TSE
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
—We describe and analyze the process of requirements development in scenario-based design through consideration of a case study. In our project, a group of teachers and system de...
TSE
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
An important step in the development of dependable systems is the validation of their fault tolerance properties. Fault injection has been widely used for this purpose, however wi...
TSE
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ABSTRACT. This paper presents a novel, scenario-based notation called Use Case Maps (UCMs) for describing, in a high-level way, how the organizational structure of a complex system...
TSE
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
— Modern networks provide a QoS (quality of service) model to go beyond best-effort services, but current QoS models are oriented towards low-level network parameters (e.g., band...
TSE
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
—Cohesion was first introduced as a software attribute that, when measured, could be used to predict properties of implementations that would be created from a given design. Unfo...
TSE
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
—With the increasing use of object-oriented methods in new software development there is a growing need to both document and improve current practice in object-oriented design an...
TSE
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
Message-logging protocols are an integral part of a popular technique for implementing processes that can recover from crash failures. All message-logging protocols require that, ...
TSE
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
—Masking fault-tolerance guarantees that programs continually satisfy their specification in the presence of faults. By way of contrast, nonmasking fault-tolerance does not guara...