Software architectures, like complex designs in any field, embody tradeoffs made by the designers. However, these tradeoffs are not always made explicitly by the designers and the...
Rick Kazman, Mario Barbacci, Mark Klein, S. Jeromy...
Abstract. While a large body of research exists on the development and implementation of software, organizations are increasingly acquiring enterprise software packages [e.g. enter...
This paper shows how software engineering technologies used to define and analyze complex software systems can also be effective in detecting defects in human-intensive processes ...
Bin Chen, George S. Avrunin, Elizabeth A. Henneman...
Exhaustive model checking search techniques are ineffective for error discovery in large and complex multi-threaded software systems. Distance estimate heuristics guide the concre...
Architectural monitoring and adaptation allows self-management capabilities of autonomic systems to realize more powerful adaptation steps, which observe and adjust not only param...
Thomas Vogel, Stefan Neumann, Stephan Hildebrandt,...