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 ...

What do Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle all have in common? Well, apart from being software vulnerabilities discovered in 2014, they were all found in pre-built software components, used by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open-source software is ubiquitous. A recent report found that 97% of applications use open-source code and 90% of companies across industries are applying or using it in their operations. The ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) are crucial cybersecurity tools because they assist companies in locating, evaluating, and ...

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 ...

Many commercial software companies and enterprise in-house developers are churning out applications that are insecure by design due to the rapid and often uncontrolled use of open-source components.

PC components explained: learn what each part does, their functions, and how CPU, GPU, storage, and cooling impact performance and longevity.

Microsoft this week announced a preview of a new Vulnerable Components Inventory feature in its Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management service. The Vulnerable Components Inventory shows ...