The difficulty of maintaining very large software systems is becoming more widely acknowledged. One of the primary problems is the need to access information about a complex and e...
Premkumar T. Devanbu, Peter G. Selfridge, Bruce W....
Reuse is an important means of reducing costs and effort during the development of complex software systems. A major challenge is to find suitable components in a large library wit...
Matthias Schmidt, Jan Polowinski, Jendrik Johannes...
An application framework provides reusable design and implementation for a family of software systems. At the application engineering stage, application developers extend framework...
Many tasks in software engineering can be characterized as source to source transformations. Design recovery, software restructuring, forward engineering, language translation, pl...
James R. Cordy, Thomas R. Dean, Andrew J. Malton, ...
Formal specification and verification of security has proven a challenging task. There is no single method that has proven feasible. Instead, an integrated approach which combines...