The Linux Foundation and Harvard's Lab for Innovation Science this week released the rankings of the top 500 open source projects in two major ecosystems in the first step toward cataloging the ...

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 ...

Most modern software applications are built using third-party and open-source components that are stitched together with original code to achieve the desired capabilities. Third party software, which ...

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 ...

Experienced software engineers know that re-use is about far, far more than software development, but it is a lesson that less tenured software professionals tend to fumble with and needlessly have to ...

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 ...

Security firm Veracode Inc. has released its annual State of Software Security Report with a number of concerning findings in regards to the poor state of enterprise security. The report, based based ...

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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 ...

Open source software is the bedrock of modern software development, but it can also be a weak link in the software supply chain. Here are the biggest risks — and tips on how to safely use OSS ...