Automobile safety depends on the correct operation of software systems that are built from many different components. For good design, these components must be isolated, on multiple axes, so they ...

Component-based software helps you get a system working quickly, keep costs down, and reuse the most robust software from prior applications. This article presents methods for creating your own ...

Code reuse is indubitably valuable. With reusable application modules, developers can take it a step further into web apps and UIs. Web Components are modular elements of a UI that developers can ...

There is an ironic dichotomy in today's software stacks: While many things are programmed to be operationally deterministic and predictable, the inevitably unstable and unpredictable nature of ...

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 ...