A controlled experiment on the impact of the object constraint language in UML-based maintenance

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 380-389

  Briand, L C ^a   Labiche, Y ^a   Yan, H D ^a   Di Penta, M ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OBJECT CONSTRAINT LANGUAGE (OCL); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING STUDENTS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 18044381923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2004.1357823     Document Type: Conference Paper

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