Recent evidences indicate that most faults in software systems are found in only a few of a system's components [1]. The early identification of these components allows an or...
T. Wang, Ahmed E. Hassan, Ajith Guedem, Walid Abde...
Design patterns document expert design experience in software system development. They have been applied in many existing software systems. However, pattern information is general...
Charmy is a framework for designing and validating architectural specifications. In the early stages of the software development process, the Charmy framework assists the software...
Paola Inverardi, Henry Muccini, Patrizio Pelliccio...
We describe an automated method to generating models of an autonomic system. Specifically, we generate UML state diagrams for a set of interacting objects, including the extensio...
Heather Goldsby, Betty H. C. Cheng, Philip K. McKi...
Sequence diagrams are commonly used to represent object interactions in software systems. Reverse-engineered sequence diagrams, which are constructed from existing code, are becom...