An experimental investigation of UML modeling conventions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4199 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 27-41

  Lange, Christian F J ^a   DuBois, Bart ^b   Chaudron, Michel R V ^a   Demeyer, Serge ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CODING CONVENTIONS; DEFECT DENSITY; MODELING CONVENTIONS; TOOL INTEGRATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 33750324704     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11880240_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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