Throughout its short history, software development has been characterized by harmful
disconnects between important activities such as planning, development and …

The amount of time and expense spent debugging, customizing, updating, and maintaining
software far outstrips the amount spent buying it. This book provides a simple and …

To maintain and understand large applications, it is important to know their architecture. The
first problem is that unlike classes and packages, architecture is not explicitly represented in …

Gaining an architectural level understanding of a software system is important for many
reasons. When the description of a system's architecture does not exist, attempts must be …

An approach to managing the architecture of large software systems is presented.
Dependencies are extracted from the code by a conventional static analysis, and shown in a …

Today the microservice architectural style is being adopted by many key technological
players such as Netflix, Amazon, The Guardian. A microservice architecture is composed of …

A development task related to a crosscutting concern is challenging because a developer
can easily get lost when exploring scattered elements of code and the complex tangle of …

One of the most critical issues in large-scale software development and maintenance is the
rapidly growing size and complexity of software systems. As a result of this rapid growth …

Code duplication, plausibly caused by copying source code and slightly modifying it, is often
observed in large systems. Clone detection and documentation have been investigated by …

This work presents a triggerable ultimate security device (USD) capable of physically
destroying a memory chip that contains classified data within a few milliseconds upon the …