Empirical validation of metrics for UML statechart diagrams

ICEIS 2003 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 87-95

  Miranda, David ^a   Genero, Marcela ^a   Piattini, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Empirical validation; Experiment replica; Object Oriented Software Systems maintainability; Structural complexity metrics; UML behavioural diagrams; UML statechart diagrams

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; UML BEHAVIOURAL DIAGRAMS; UML STATECHART DIAGRAMS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 18144384640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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