Performance Analysis of WS-Security Mechanisms in SOAP-Based Web Services

This paper presents the results of a series of experiments targeted at analyzing the performance impact of adding WS-Security, a common security standard used in IdM frameworks, to SOAP-based web...

Relating Business Goals to Architecturally Significant Requirements for Software Systems

This report attempts to facilitate better elicitation of high-pedigree quality attribute requirements by understanding how business goals influence quality attribute requirements and architectures.

Keynote: Engineering Safety-and Security-Related Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems (ICSE 2010)

Keynote presentation by Donald Firesmith at SESS’10, as part of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ISCE’2010) in Cape Town, South Africa.

Towards an Assurance Case Practice for Medical Devices

This report explores how the assurance case promises a technology answer for the challenge that manufacturers and federal regulators face in gaining confidence about the performance of software-dominated medical devices.

The Personal Software Process (PSP) Body of Knowledge, Version 2.0

The Personal Software Process (PSP) body of knowledge (BOK) contained in this report provides guidance to software professionals who are interested in using proven-effective, disciplined methods to improve their personal...