Finding "early" indicators of UML class diagrams understandability and modifiability

Proceedings - 2004 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 207-216

  Genero, Marcela ^a   Piatini, Mario ^a   Manso, Esperanza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Class diagrams; Controlled experiments; Empirical validation; Maintainability; Metrics; Modifiability; Prediction models; Size; Structural complexity; UML; Understandability

Indexed keywords

CLASS DIAGRAMS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; METRICS; MODIFIABILITY; PREDICTION MODELS; SOFTWARE SIZE; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; UML; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MAINTAINABILITY; METRIC SYSTEM; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUALITY CONTROL; STUDENTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 11244351715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2004.1334908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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