Reviewing software diagrams: A cognitive study

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 82-96

  Hungerford, Bruce C ^a   Hevner, Alan R ^b   Collins, Rosann W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Defects; Human cognitive theory; Inspections; Software diagrams; Software quality; Software reviews; Verbal protocol methods

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

HUMAN COGNITIVE THEORY; SOFTWARE DIAGRAMS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE REVIEWS; VERBAL PROTOCOL METHODS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 1842426443     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2004.1265814     Document Type: Article

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