Existing ADLs (Architecture Description Languages) have an advantage of formally specifying the architecture of component-based systems. But ADLs have not come into extensive use ...
The alignment of the software architecture and the functional requirements of a system is a demanding task because of the difficulty in tracing design elements to requirements. Th...
Abstract. Feature Models (FMs) are a key artifact for variability and commonality management in Software Product Lines (SPLs). In this context, the merging of FMs is being recogniz...
Sergio Segura, David Benavides, Antonio Ruiz Cort&...
The Infrastructure of modern society is controlled by software systems that are vulnerable to attacks. Many such attacks, launched by "recreational hackers" have already...
Howard E. Shrobe, Robert Laddaga, Robert Balzer, N...
Test is often seen as a necessary evil; it is a fact of life that ICs have manufacturing defects and those need to be filtered out by testing before the ICs are shipped to the cu...
Erik Jan Marinissen, Bart Vermeulen, Robert Madge,...