Abstract. In software architecture, components represent the computational units of a system and connectors represent the interactions among those units. Making decisions about the...
ISO 9126 promotes a three-level model of quality (factors, criteria, and metrics) which allows one to assess quality at the top level of factors and criteria. However, it is difï¬...
Karine Mordal-Manet, Francoise Balmas, Simon Denie...
To build highly available or reliable applications out of unreliable third-party components, some software-implemented fault-tolerant mechanisms are introduced to gracefully deal w...
Junguo Li, Xiangping Chen, Gang Huang, Hong Mei, F...
Abstract. An architectural bad smell is a commonly (although not always intentionally) used set of architectural design decisions that negatively impacts system lifecycle propertie...
Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, Nen...
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) provides new modularization of software systems by encapsulating crosscutting concerns. AspectJ, an AOP language, uses abstractions such as point...