Middleware is a software layer that stands between the networked operating system and the
application and provides well known reusable solutions to frequently encountered problems …

Many times we are faced with the proliferation of definitions, concepts, languages, and tools
in certain (research) topics. But often there is a gap between what is provided by existing …

作为控制软件复杂性, 提高软件系统质量, 支持软件开发和复用的重要手段之一,
软件体系结构自提出以来, 日益受到软件研究者和实践者的关注, 并发展成为软件工程的一个 …

For large, complex software systems, the design of the overall system structure (the software
architecture) is an essential challenge. The architecture of a software system defines that …

Software product line modeling has received a great deal of attention for its potential in
fostering reuse of software artifacts across development phases. Research on the testing …

Abstract System-level testing of healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) applications requires
creating a test infrastructure with integrated medical devices and third-party applications. A …

Requirements Engineering and Software Testing are mature areas and have seen a lot of
research. Nevertheless, their interactions have been sparsely explored beyond the concept …

Abstract Context Software Architecture (SA) and Source Code (SC) are two intertwined
artefacts that represent the interdependent design decisions made at different levels of …

Service oriented architectures and Web services are emerging technologies, which have
overall inherited problems and advantages from the component-based approach, but …

Context With the ever-increasing evolution of software systems, their architecture is subject
to frequent changes due to multiple reasons, such as new requirements. Appropriate …