As software systems become more complex the overall system structure { or software architecture { becomes a central design problem. An important step towards an engineering discip...
Keeping requirements specification up-to-date during the evolution of a software system is an expensive task. Consequently, specifications are usually not updated and rapidly beco...
Architectural knowledge has been recognized by the software architecture community as a self-contained research area in software architecture, and brought along some promising res...
Software components, if usedproperly, ofj~r many software engineering benefits. Yet, they also pose many original challenges starting fi'om quality assurance and ranging to a...
An execution trace contains a description of everything that happened during an execution of a program. Execution traces are useful, because they can help software engineers under...