Maintainability is a key quality attribute of successful software systems. However, its management in practice is still problematic. Currently, there is no comprehensive basis for...
Florian Deissenboeck, Stefan Wagner, Markus Pizka,...
Certain design fragments in software architectures can have a negative impact on system maintainability. In this paper, we introduce the concept of architectural “bad smells,”...
Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, Nen...
It is a significant challenge to implement and research agile software development methods in organizations such as the army. Since it differs from organizations in the industry a...
Yael Dubinsky, David Talby, Orit Hazzan, Arie Kere...
The software industry is increasingly facing the issues of understanding and maintaining a particular type of software systems, namely distributed systems. While these systems are...
Abstract—In this paper we introduce Timed Moore Automata, a specification formalism which is used in industrial train control applications for specifying the real-time behavior ...