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Abstract: Stereotypes were introduced into the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in order to provide a means of customizing the language for particular needs. The stereotypes can increase the comprehension of UML diagrams and therefor influence reading techniques used for inspections of software artefacts. In this paper we evaluate how the usage of stereotypes in UML designs influences outcomes of three readi...
Abstract: SUMMARY We present the results of two case studies we conducted at Baan in the Netherlands. At the time of conducting the case studies, Baan was part of Invensys plc. (Baan is now owned by SSA Global Technologies.) In these case studies we investigated how companies identify design erosion and address this in their software, a practice we call ‘design preservation’. In this study, we selected two ...
Abstract: Development of software product families relies heavily on the use of variability to manage the differences between products by delaying design decisions to later stages of the development and usage of the constructed software systems. Implementation of variability is not a trivial task, and is governed by a number of factors. In this paper, we describe the factors that are relevant in determining...
Abstract: When an organization faces new types of collaboration, for example after a company merger, there is a need to integrate the existing software. Important challenges are how to create a realistic vision of a future integrated system, how to make the vision concrete enough to be able to work towards the vision, and of course to carry out the actual integration process. This paper focuses on how to co...
Abstract: The International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE7) was held at 28th International Conference on Software Engineering in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 24-25, 2004. The Symposium brought together researchers and practitioners from several communities: component technology, composition languages, compositional analysis, software architecture, software certification and scientific ...
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