{"title":"Lessons learned from wrapping systems","authors":"C. Landauer, K. Bellman","doi":"10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802857","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes lessons we have learned over the last ten years from our \"wrapping\" approach to large-scale system development. Our research program in integration for constructed complex systems has led to several results with system engineering applications: the wrapping expression notation wrex for communication among distributed entities, the problem posing interpretation that inserts knowledge-based polymorphism into any programming language, and a new systematization of design patterns. We show how we implement wrappings and describe example applications. A little bit of this theory goes a long way, since it was designed for extremely large systems, such as space systems, with their hundreds of organizations, thousands of components, and millions of lines of code.","PeriodicalId":265076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'99) (Cat. No.PR00434)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114196833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Criteria for generating specification-based tests","authors":"A. Offutt, Yiwei Xiong, Shaoying Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802856","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents general criteria for generating test inputs from state-based specifications. Software testing can only be formalized and quantified when a solid basis for test generation can be defined. Formal specifications of complex systems represent a significant opportunity for testing because they precisely describe what functions the software is supposed to provide in a form that can easily be manipulated. These techniques provide coverage criteria that are based on the specifications, and are made up of several parts, including test prefixes that contain inputs necessary to put the software into the appropriate state for the test values. The test generation process includes several steps for transforming specifications to tests. Empirical results from a comparative case study application of these criteria are presented.","PeriodicalId":265076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'99) (Cat. No.PR00434)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124695244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Securing Internet sessions with Sorbet","authors":"F. Long, R. Seacord, S. Hissam, John E. Robert","doi":"10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802832","url":null,"abstract":"More and more organizations are using intranets and even the Internet as the communications media for important data. However, such communications media are inherently insecure and subject to hijacking. To secure these connections, mechanisms must be built on top of the underlying communications facilities. We discuss one such security mechanism and describe an implementation using common object request broker architecture (CORBA) based interceptors.","PeriodicalId":265076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'99) (Cat. No.PR00434)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121640613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A general purpose virtual collaboration room","authors":"Runhe Huang, Jianhua Ma","doi":"10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802838","url":null,"abstract":"The general purpose virtual collaboration room (VCR) is an Internet based desktop groupware system that enables a group of remote individuals to flexibly and naturally conduct their collaborative teaching/learning/working without constraints on collaboration types, working styles, group scales, and system platforms. To cope with the complexity, a room metaphor, i.e., emulating a physical room and objects in it, is used as a framework of the system. System implementation becomes no more complex than the case of using one object by identifying associated objects in communication messages between a room server and clients. The VCR provides rich and effective support of awareness of the user, object, space, and their mutual relations. With the use of Java applets for system implementations, users can enter and use a VCR from any standard Java enabled Web browser.","PeriodicalId":265076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'99) (Cat. No.PR00434)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130338618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing more reliable software faster and cheaper","authors":"J. Musa","doi":"10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802860","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines the nature of the standard, proven, widespread best practice of software reliability engineering (SRE). It is widely applicable, low in cost, and its implementation has virtually no schedule impact. SRE helps one develop and test more reliable software faster and cheaper. We show how it does this, and present some resources that will help one learn more about it.","PeriodicalId":265076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'99) (Cat. No.PR00434)","volume":"39 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120897778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bernhard Rumpe, M. Schoenmakers, A. Radermacher, Andy Schürr
{"title":"UML+ROOM as a standard ADL?","authors":"Bernhard Rumpe, M. Schoenmakers, A. Radermacher, Andy Schürr","doi":"10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.1999.802849","url":null,"abstract":"Designing a software system's architecture properly is one of the most important tasks of any software engineering project. Nevertheless there exists no common definition of the term \"software architecture\" and no standard software architecture description language (ADL). The paper discusses whether the standard OO modeling language UML is a standard ADL, explains some deficiencies if used for this purpose, and makes a proposal of how to eliminate these deficiencies. The proposal is based on the widely accepted idea that elements of the component based OO modeling language, ROOM, should be integrated with UML. It explains why the idea of merging static structure diagrams of ROOM with behaviour-describing collaboration diagrams of UML is not sufficient and presents an additional approach for the integration problem.","PeriodicalId":265076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Fifth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'99) (Cat. No.PR00434)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133533458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}