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Distributed enterprise systems, which are comprised of multiple software systems, typically communicate using application-layer protocols. Being able to independently test each system's conformance to the protocol specification is important to ensure the overall robustness and reliability of the distributed system. While there exists many modelling languages for network layer protocols, very few tools...
Testing enterprise software that communicates with a large number of other software systems is a challenging task as it is often difficult to replicate the size and heterogeneity of large enterprise environments. In particular, it is challenging to conduct testing of non-functional properties related to scalability, performance, and robustness of enterprise software systems when deployed into such...
Early quality evaluation and support for decisions that affect quality characteristics are among the key incentives to formally specify the architecture of a software intensive system. The Architecture Analysis and Description Language (AADL) with its error annex is a new and promising architecture modeling language that supports analysis of safety and other dependability properties. This paper reviews...
Software maintenance is widely known as a problematic area that may consume up to 80% of a software project's resources. It has been claimed that providing an effective mechanism to access design rationale (DR) has great potential to improve software maintenance processes. However, we postulate that the first step towards exploring the potential of DR for improving software maintenance should be to...
The semantic gap between formal software protocols and designs is one of the major problems restricting smooth transfer of a formal method from protocols towards designs. Goal operationalization is an essential approach to address this issue. KAOS is one of the main protocol languages supporting goal operationalization. However, agents, goals and operations provided in KAOS lack for unified semantic...
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