Increasing complexity of today’s software systems is one of the major challenges software engineers have to face. This is aggravated by the fact that formerly isolated systems have to be interconnected to more comple...
Software guidelines have been with us in many forms within Software Engineering community such as knowledge, experiences, domain expertise, laws, software design principles, rules, design heuristics, hypothesis, exper...
In a component-based software development life cycle, selection of preexisting components is an important task. Every component that has to be reused has an associated risk of failure of not meeting the functional and...