To better understand what makes Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) hard to use and how to improve them, recent research has begun studying programmers' strategies and ...
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...
Doing agile development in a relatively inelastic environment, where policies and procedures are virtually unchangeable, creates an impedance mismatch between the agile team and i...
The correct interplay among components in a distributed, reactive system is a crucial development task, particularly for embedded systems such as those in the automotive domain. M...
Abstract. Evaluating the implications of an architecture design early in the software development lifecycle is important in order to reduce costs of development. Reliability is an ...