Reusable components equipped with strict guarantees of quality can help reestablish software development on a stronger footing, by taking advantage of the scaling effect of reuse ...
Architectural patterns have an impact on both the structure and the behavior of a system at the architecture design level. However, it is challenging to model patterns' behavi...
Given the rapid rise of model-driven software development methodologies, it is highly desirable that tools be developed to support the use of design patterns in this context. This...
Hong Zhu, Ian Bayley, Lijun Shan, Richard Amphlett
Models become increasingly important for software development processes. Though there is a multitude of software modeling tools available, the handling of diagrams is still diffic...
Assembling software components into an architecture is a difficult task because of its combinatorial complexity. There is thus a need for automating this building process, either t...
Nicolas Desnos, Sylvain Vauttier, Christelle Urtad...