166 pp., $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-201-70851-5. With few exceptions (and this is not one of them) in computing, the word, "simple" should only be applied with some form of a "relative-to" qualification.

The last three articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we’ve separated our software architecture into hardware-dependent and independent ...

Software component selection and decision-making are critical processes in modern software engineering, particularly within the framework of Component‐Based Software Engineering (CBSE). The approach ...

Component-Based Software Performance Engineering (CBSPE) integrates the modularity of component-based software engineering with rigorous performance analysis, enabling the design and tuning of complex ...

OntoSpace software lets users measure the complexity of almost any system — for example, mechanical components or assemblies — that can be described by input and output variables. We use the software ...

Software testing plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of applications. Two important testing approaches are component testing and end-to-end testing. Component testing focuses ...

A little heralded document issued by FAA in December 2004 describes how software developers and avionics manufacturers can obtain limited approval of software components that can be reused in many ...

What do Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle all have in common? Well, apart from being software vulnerabilities discovered in 2014, they were all found in pre-built software components, used by ...