Does UML make the grade? Insights from the software development community

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 383-397

  Grossman, Martin ^a   Aronson, Jay E ^b   McCarthy, Richard V ^c  

^a BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Object oriented analysis and design; OOAD; Task technology fit; UML; Unified Modeling Language

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

OBJECT-ORIENTED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN (OOAD); PROCESS-ORIENTED (PO) APPROACHES; TASK-TECHNOLOGY FIT; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 15344348313     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

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