One efficient way to perceive the effects of design decisions is by analyzing and evaluating Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs). A design decison can contribute positively or negatively toward specific NFRs. In their turn, NFRs describe how the ...

Refactoring is defined as a transformation that changes the internal structure of the source code without changing the external behavior. Keeping the external behavior means that after applying the refactoring activity, the software must produce the ...

Over the years, UAVs (also known as drones) have been growing in studies and applications to solve diverse problems. Due to the complexity of these problems, dealing with just one UAV may not be enough, but using several UAVs together to work ...

Most current mobile applications work with a back-end server over the Internet. But in many occasions network connectivity is not available and a proper offline treatment must be provided. This question can be solved in many ways, such as storing ...

The adoption of Microservices Architecture (MSA) has increased in recent years due to several claimed benefits, such as reducing deployment complexity, supporting technology diversity, and better scalability. However, MSA is not free from ...

Background: Software ecosystems are becoming increasingly complex and large. Therefore, discovering and selecting the right libraries and frameworks for use in a project is becoming a challenging task. Existing commercial services that support this task ...

Variability modeling in Software Product Lines (SPL) encompasses a set of activities, such as domain analysis, identification of requirements, implementation of variability, variant management, and generation of products. In this context, the existing ...