In this paper, we explore the problems associated with exception handling from a new dimension: the human. We designed a study that evaluates (1) different perspectives of softwar...
A distributed software system's deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system's dependability. Dependability is a function of various system paramet...
Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Marija Mikic-Rakic, Nenad...
It has been widely advocated that software architecture an effective set of abstractions for engineering (families of) complex software systems. However, architectural concepts ar...
Sam Malek, Chiyoung Seo, Sharmila Ravula, Brad Pet...
An essential part of modern enterprise software development is metadata. Mainstream metadata formats, including XML deployment descriptors and Java 5 annotations, suffer from a n...
The wide diffusion of reliable Internet is pushing two key novelties in the conception of modern software applications: the Software as a Service paradigm and the idea of the Inte...
Luciano Baresi, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Sam Guinea, S...