Investigating the role of use cases in the construction of class diagrams

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 285-309

  Anda, Bente ^a   Sjøberg, Dag I K ^a  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Controlled experiment; Modelling tool; Object oriented design; Replicated experiment; UML; Use cases

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; MODELING TOOL; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; REPLICATED EXPERIMENT; UML; USE CASES;

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING;

EID: 21644432685     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-005-1289-3     Document Type: Article

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